Two months after I-T raid, ED files case against BBC India

Security personnel outside BBC office in Delhi in Februray. Pic/PTI

The Enforcement Directorate has registered a FEMA case against news broadcaster BBC India for alleged foreign exchange violations, official sources said on Thursday.

The ED action comes two months after the Income-Tax department surveyed its offices in Delhi and Mumbai in February.

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The ED has called for documents and the recording of statements of some company executives under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), the officers said. A deputy managing editor of the news company has deposed before the ED.

The probe is essentially looking at purported foreign direct investment (FDI) violations by the company, they said.

The I-T raid had come days after BBC released a two-part documentary against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots. The Centre had banned the documentary titled, India: The Modi Question.

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