The BBC has been issued an Indian high court summons over its documentary, India: The Modi Question, according to local reports.
The Delhi High Court has issued the notice in a defamation suit launched over the doc, 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, who has been Prime Minister for nine years.
According to local media, Justice Sachin Datta has issued the summons and the case will be further considered in September. A Gujarat-based non-profit organization is reported to have brought the suit. “It is contended that the said documentary makes defamatory imputations and caste slurs on the reputation of the country and the judiciary, and against the Prime Minister of India.
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