India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary that questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s management throughout the 2002 Gujarat riots and barred any clips from being shared through social media.
Instructions to dam the clips from being shared have been issued utilizing emergency powers out there to the federal government beneath the nation’s info know-how guidelines, authorities adviser Kanchan Gupta mentioned through Twitter on Saturday.
Whereas the BBC has not aired the documentary in India, the video was uploaded on some YouTube channels, Mr Gupta mentioned.
The federal government has issued orders to Twitter to dam greater than 50 tweets linking to the video of the documentary and YouTube has been instructed to dam any uploads of the video, Mr Gupta mentioned.
Each YouTube and Twitter have complied with the instructions, he mentioned.
Mr Modi was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat when it was gripped by communal riots that left greater than 1000 folks useless, by authorities depend – most of them Muslims.
The violence erupted after a prepare carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fireplace, killing 59.
Human rights activists estimate not less than double that quantity who died within the rioting.
Mr Modi denied accusations that he did not cease the rioting.
A particular investigation group appointed by the Supreme Court docket to research the position of Mr. Modi and others within the violence mentioned in a 541-page report in 2012 that it may discover no proof to prosecute the then chief minister.
Mr Modi was later named the top of his get together, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Get together, which he led to energy typically elections in 2014 after which in 2019.
Final week, a consultant for India’s overseas ministry termed the BBC documentary a “propaganda piece” meant to push a “discredited narrative”.
