Indian tax officials continue to peruse BBC offices today.

In the midst of controversy surrounding a BBC documentary that criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role in deadly riots twenty years ago, Indian tax inspectors searched the BBC's offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for a second day on Wednesday, according to two sources.


According to a government source and a source at the BBC's New Delhi bureau, the searches began on Wednesday morning after continuing into the night on Tuesday.


The Income Tax Department of India has declined to comment on the search's motivation. Due to the sensitivity of the subject, the sources declined to be named. 



The documentary, which centres on Hindu nationalist Modi amid the 2002 outbreak of Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat state, was halted by the government last month.



In the riots, at least 1,000 individuals died, the most of them Muslims. The death toll, according to activists, is at than double that amount.


The government claims that the documentary "India: The Modi Question" is biassed, lacks objectivity, and displays a "continuing colonial attitude" in order to advance what it terms a "discredited narrative."


The BBC has maintained the accuracy of their reporting for the film. On Tuesday, it stated that it was working with Indian tax authorities and hoped the matter would be "settled as soon as possible".


Indian media outlets have criticised the hunt.

The Mumbai Press Club issued a statement saying, "We demand that this harassment stop and journalists are allowed to do their duties without fear or favour."


The government's conduct, according to an editorial in the Indian Express newspaper, "smacks of bullying."


India is ranked low on the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index, dropping eight spots to No. 150 last year. The administration has stated that it disagrees with the index's findings.


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