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ED registers case against BBC India for ‘foreign exchange violation’

Media persons out BBC office in Mumbai as IT sleuths conduct searches in February 2023. [Photo: Twitter/ SumantBanerji]

New Delhi: On Wednesday, the Enforcement Directorate registered a case against the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) India under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) for alleged foreign exchange violation.

This is not the first time that the UK-headquartered broadcaster came under an Indian agency investigation.

Earlier in February, the Income-Tax Department had carried out surveys at the premises of the BBC in New Delhi, Mumbai on what it alleged was “non-compliance” with transfer pricing rules and diversion of profits.

BBC was embroiled in a controversy over its documentary on Gujarat riot India: The Modi Question, which was critical of then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s role in the killing of Muslims in Gujarat.

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