Income Tax Official Conduct "Check" Operations On BBC India services
It's learned that the duty officers are conducting verification of certain account documents in the finance department of the BBC services
Income duty officers are conducting' check' operations on the Indian services of the British public broadcaster BBC in both Delhi and Mumbai, sources said on Tuesday.
According to sources, the IT labor force was vindicating certain account documents in the BBC's finance department. Income duty officers arrived at BBC services located at the public capital's KG Marg for the check. The British broadcaster's office at Kalina Santacruz in Mumbai was also surveyed, sources said, adding that the check was limited to the business demesne of BBC only.
According to reports, a team of IT officers arrived at the BBC Studios office in Kalina Santacruz around11.30 am moment and a check is going on since also. There is no IT exertion at the BBC News office at Linking road Bandra West.
It's learned
that the duty officers are conducting verification of certain account documents
in the finance department of the BBC services.
During the
exploration, the mobile phones of all the workers present in the BBC office
have been taken down by the Income duty team. The data of the computer kept in
the accounts and finance department was also scanned. According to sources,
officers said the bias will be returned to their owners after taking a backup.
The searches come weeks after the BBC released a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi-' India The Modi Question," which caused a disputation.
On January 21,
the Centre issued directions for blocking multiple YouTube vids and Twitter
posts sharing links to the controversial BBC documentary on PM Modi. The
Supreme Court had on February 3 directed the central government to produce
original records relating to its decision to block the BBC documentary.
Pupil unions at several varsities including JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi University, Panjab University, and those in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and another corridor of the country had organized networks of the documentary.
Meanwhile, before the moment Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said the government is after the BBC rather than accepting an Opposition demand on a common Parliamentary Committee on Adani- Hindenburg matter.
TMC's Mahua Moitra also took to Twitter and wrote," Reports of Income duty raid at BBC's Delhi office. Wow, really? How unexpected."
" Central Govt has embarrassed itself and the Country by raiding services of BBC," Aam Aadmi Party prophet Saurabh Bharadwaj said in a tweet.
