The controversy around the BBC’s documentary and the ‘tax survey’ that followed have become a battlefield for fierce debate on prime time news
, contradicting the tax authorities’ statement. Ms Seshu called it “intrusive, violative of their privacy, a threat to the journalistic work they do and a challenge to their right to freedom of expression.” India currently ranks 150 out of 180 on the World Press Freedom Index.
But the current effort to investigate the BBC’s India operations, believe media and legal experts, has served as a “warning” to journalists at large. An anti-foreign media sentiment is brewing. Fringe nationalist Hindu groups protested outside the broadcaster’s offices, holding up “BBC leave India” banners. Petitions were raised in court to ban the BBC’s operations in India, though dismissed by judges.
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