{"id":34304,"date":"2021-07-22T20:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/tax-raids-target-indian-paper-criticised-government-covid-dainik-bhaskar"},"modified":"2021-07-22T20:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T11:49:58","slug":"tax-raids-target-indian-paper-that-criticised-government-over-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34304","title":{"rendered":"Tax raids target Indian paper that criticised government over Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dainik Bhaskar accuses government of pursuing it on trumped-up charges in response to its reporting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tax raids have been carried out on the offices of one of India\u2019s most popular newspapers, after months of critical coverage of the government\u2019s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, more than 100 tax inspectors descended on the headquarters of Dainik Bhaskar media group in the state of Madhya Pradesh, and raided 30 regional offices in the states of Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/tax-raids-target-indian-paper-criticised-government-covid-dainik-bhaskar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dainik Bhaskar accuses government of pursuing it on trumped-up charges in response to its reportingCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTax raids have been carried out on the offices of one of India\u2019s most popular newspapers, aft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,1066,62,238,671,54,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-media","category-newspapers","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions\/34305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}