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Supreme Court To Take Up Request Challenging Ban On PM BBC Series Today


Supreme Court to receive an appeal challenging the ban on BBC series on PM today

BBC documentary: Government condemns series as ‘propaganda’

New Delhi:

The Supreme Court will today hear requests to challenge the center’s decision to block the controversial BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The main appeal was filed by Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra, veteran journalist N Ram and lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan.

In their appeal to the high court, they sought to restrict the center’s right to “receive and disseminate information” to the BBC’s two-part series “India: The Question of Modi”. ”

“Every citizen including the press has the fundamental right to view, express opinions, critique, report and legally circulate the content of the documentary,” it said.

The appeal also sought to rescind “all orders to censor directly or indirectly” information shared on the social network.

Last week, attorney CU Singh – representing the three petitioners – said that the center had invoked emergency powers under the IT Rules to remove links to the documentary from social networks.

A Supreme Court bench of Judges Sanjiv Khanna and MM Sundresh will hear their request.

Supporter ML Sharma filed a separate appeal calling the center’s ban on the documentary “unwarranted, arbitrary and unconstitutional”.

Advocate Sharma has called on the supreme court to consider both parts of the documentary and take action against those involved – directly and indirectly – with the 2002 Gujarat riots.

On January 21, the center asked Twitter and YouTube to remove the links of the controversial documentary. India has called the BBC’s two-part series “a piece of propaganda designed to promote a discredited story”.

The BBC’s two-part series describer called it “a look at tensions between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India’s Muslim minority, investigating claims of his role in the riots.” In 2002, more than a thousand people died.”

An investigation appointed by the Supreme Court found no evidence of any wrongdoing by Prime Minister Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat when riots broke out in February 2002. Special Investigation Team, in a report a decade after the riots, vindicated Prime Minister Modi on the grounds of “no prosecution evidence”.

In June last year, the Supreme Court upheld the clearance for Prime Minister Modi and said the case was “null and void” and was filed “clearly with conspiracy”.

The BBC says the series examines “how Narendra Modi’s role as prime minister has been hampered by persistent accusations about his government’s attitude towards Muslims in India” and “a series of controversial policies” implemented by Prime Minister Modi after his re-election in 2019, including “the removal of Kashmir’s special status guaranteed under Article 370” and the “citizenship law many consider that has treated Muslims unfairly,” “accompanied by reports of violent attacks on Muslims by Hindus.”

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