{"id":55379,"date":"2023-05-22T16:03:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/indian-court-issues-bbc-with-summons-over-narendra-modi-documentary-say-reports"},"modified":"2023-05-22T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:03:45","slug":"indian-court-issues-bbc-with-summons-over-modi-documentary-say-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55379","title":{"rendered":"Indian court issues BBC with summons over Modi documentary, say reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary questioned Indian prime minister\u2019s leadership during 2002 Gujarat riots<\/p>\n<p>The high court in Delhi has issued a summons to the BBC in a defamation case over a documentary on the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, that questioned his leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, according to reports in Indian media.<\/p>\n<p>The defamation suit states that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/14\/why-is-bbc-report-on-narendra-modis-handling-of-sectarian-riots-in-2002-so-controversial\">documentary India: The Modi Question<\/a>, which aired earlier this year, cast a slur on India\u2019s reputation and that of its judiciary and the prime minister, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/indian-court-issues-bbc-with-summons-over-narendra-modi-documentary-say-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary questioned Indian prime minister\u2019s leadership during 2002 Gujarat riotsThe high court in Delhi has issued a summons to the BBC in a defamation case over a documentary on the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, that questioned his leadersh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"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":[1762,62,238,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-india","category-media","category-narendra-modi","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\/55379","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\/1289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55380,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55379\/revisions\/55380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}