India blocks BBC documentary on Modi’s role in Gujarat riots

Jack Straw, who was the UK’s foreign secretary at the time of the violence, said that Modi, pictured, had 'played a pretty active part in pulling back the police and in tacitly encouraging the Hindu extremists' [File: Ajit Solanki/AP Photo]

India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary that questions Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying that even sharing any clips via social media is barred.

The documentary takes a critical look at Modi’s role in the deadly 2002 Gujarat riots.