Indian tax agents raid BBC offices in wake of Modi documentary

A police officer and a private security guard ask journalists to leave, outside a building housing the BBC offices in New Delhi, India [Altaf Qadri/The Associated Press]

Indian tax authorities have raided the offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the country in the wake of a documentary that examined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in 2002 anti-Muslim riots, according to the BBC.

In a tweet, the BBC news department’s press office on Tuesday said the tax authorities were “currently at the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai and we are fully cooperating”.