BBC summoned to Indian court over banned Modi documentary

The BBC has been summoned by the Delhi High Court in a defamation suit over its documentary, India: The Modi Question, which explores Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision making during the 2002 Gujarat riots and is banned in India. The suit claims the doc slurs India’s reputation and that of its judiciary and Modi. The Indian government has tried to have the BBC banned in its entirety. The doc has been called “hostile propaganda and anti-India garbage” by the Indian government and sparked protests by members of Britain’s Indian diaspora outside BBC New Broadcasting House in January.