Breaking:Income Tax Raids BBC Offices In Mumbai And Delhi

Positive India:New Delhi:
A team of 15 officials from the Income Tax Department have raided the offices of the BBC in Delhi and Mumbai today.

Sources said the searches at the BBC offices were related to allegations of International Taxation and Transfer Pricing irregularities.

The department is looking at documents related to the business operations of the company and those related to its Indian arm.

As per reports, the mobile phones of BBC employees being taken away by the Income Tax officials. All the BBC employees have been ordered not go outside the office.
As per information, the tax sleuths also are going through the data from the computer in the accounting department.

As per ABP Live,teams of Mumbai Police have also been deployed outside the premises in Mumbai to anyone from leaving or entering. It has also been learnt that apart from Delhi and Mumbai ‘survey raids’ are being conducted in other parts of the country as well.

It is to be noted that the Supreme Court has dismissed a plea by the Hindu Sena seeking a complete ban on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and BBC India from operating from Indian territory in the wake of airing a documentary on PM Modi.

The top court had on February 3 also directed the central government to produce original records relating to its decision to block the BBC documentary.

On January 21, the government issued directions for blocking multiple YouTube videos and Twitter posts sharing links to the controversial documentary.