As the raid was underway, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray took a dig at the ruling dispensation at the centre and said the I-T action shows that the voice of the dissent will be crushed. aaa
NEW DELHI: The Income Tax department is said to be conducting raids at the at BBC's Delhi office, sources stated on Tuesday. The BBC’s office is located at Kasturba Gandhi Marg and as per reports in Zee News a team of 60-70 members of the IT department is currently carrying out ‘survey operations’ at the BBC Office. The employees and journalists have been asked to not use
"Cause & effect of raids on the BBC Office is quite obvious. GOI is brazenly hounding those who speak the truth. Be it opposition leaders, media, activists or anyone else for that matter. The gloves are off & there is a price one pays for fighting for truth," Mufti tweeted
A former deputy chief of bureau at BBC Delhi, journalist Satish Jacob, told The Wire that it is "most worrying is that the Modi government no longer cares about the optics of such an action."