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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kiran Stacey and Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Tax raids on BBC offices in India ‘deeply worrying’, says Labour

Police officers and news media outside the BBC offices in New Delhi as tax officials conducted a search
Police officers and news media outside the BBC offices in New Delhi as tax officials conducted a search. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters

Labour has condemned raids by Indian tax authorities on BBC offices in Mumbai and New Delhi as “deeply worrying”, as ministers say they have raised the issue with their Indian counterparts.

In the first significant intervention by a main British party since last week’s raids, the shadow foreign minister Fabian Hamilton criticised the Indian authorities and expressed concern that BBC staff had been held overnight for questioning.

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