The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday filed a case against BBC under Foreign Exchange Management Act for alleged irregularities in foreign funding.
The federal probe company additionally referred to as for paperwork and the recording of statements of some firm executives under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), they stated.
The probe is basically taking a look at purported foreign direct funding (FDI) violations by the corporate, they stated.
The transfer comes in the backdrop of the Income-Tax division surveying BBC workplace premises in Delhi in February. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the executive physique for the I-T division, had then stated the earnings and income proven by numerous BBC group entities had been “not commensurate” with the dimensions of their operations in India and tax has not been paid on sure remittances by its foreign entities.
BBC documentary triggers political row
The British broadcaster landed in bother after releasing a documentary that was vital of then chief minister Narendra Modi on the 2002 riots in Gujarat. Subsequently, BBC documentary was banned in India.
Several college students manhandled, ‘detained’
Nearly a dozen college students protesting against the debarment of two college students for allegedly taking part in a screening of the BBC documentary on Delhi University campus had been detained on March 24 from the Arts college. The college students have alleged that they had been manhandled by the police and college safety contained in the North Campus premises.
Several experiences got here for the reason that documentary launch in which Left-leaning pupil unions screened or tried to display screen the documentary on the premises of universities/faculties in a number of states.
‘Freedom of expression not license for deception’: Assam CM
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on March 22 knowledgeable that the state meeting has adopted a decision against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) saying that in New India there might be a democratic however proportionate response against those that revenue by tarnishing Bharat’s picture. “Let it be made clear in no uncertain terms that in New India there will be a democratic but proportionate response against those who profit by tarnishing Bharat’s image. Freedom of expression is not a license for deception,” Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted.
Assam, Maharashtra, Gujarat Assembly go decision against BBC documentary
Maharashtra, Gujarat and Assam Legislative Assemblies handed resolutions condemning the BBC for its documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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