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NEW DELHI, 14 Feb:<\/strong> The income tax (IT) department on Tuesday conducted a survey operation at the BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai as part of a tax evasion investigation, officials said.<\/p>\n The surprise action comes weeks after the broadcaster aired a two-part documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and India.<\/p>\n The department is looking at documents related to the business operations of the company and those related to its Indian arm, they said.<\/p>\n As part of a survey, the income tax department only covers the business premises of a company and does not raid residences and other locations of its promoters or directors.<\/p>\n Cong condemns ‘intimidation tactics’<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Congress on Tuesday termed “intimidation tactics” the IT survey operation at the BBC offices and alleged that the action shows that the Modi government is scared of criticism.<\/p>\n Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said that, while the party is demanding a joint parliamentary committee probe on the Adani issue, the “government is after the BBC.”<\/p>\n He also used a Hindi idiom to attack the government, saying “Vinash kale, vipreet buddhi\u201d (When doom approaches, a person’s intellect works against his interest).<\/p>\n “Here we are demanding JPC on the Adani issue but the government is after the BBC. Vinash kale, viprit buddhi,” Ramesh said.<\/p>\n Reacting to the development, Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal said the IT raid at BBC’s offices “reeks of desperation and shows that the Modi government is scared of criticism.”<\/p>\n “We condemn these intimidation tactics in the harshest terms. This undemocratic and dictatorial attitude cannot go on any longer,” he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n The action by the IT department comes weeks after the broadcaster aired a two-part documentary – India: The Modi Question. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, 14 Feb: The income tax (IT) department on Tuesday conducted a survey operation at the BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai as part of a tax evasion investigation, officials said. The surprise action comes weeks after the broadcaster aired a two-part documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and India. The department is looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-211053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}