ED on Thursday filed case against BBC India under Foreign Exchange Management Act for irregularities in foreign funding. According to reports, the central probe agency has also called for documents and recording of statements of some company executives under the FEMA Act.
The case comes after the Income Tax department surveyed their premises in Mumbai and Delhi amid the 2002 documentary row in February.
According to news agency PTI, the probe is essentially looking at purported foreign direct investment violations by the company.
The probe is essentially looking at purported foreign direct investment (FDI) violations by the company, they said.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the administrative body for the I-T department, had then said the income and profits shown by various BBC group entities were "not commensurate" with the scale of their operations in India and tax has not been paid on certain remittances by its foreign entities.
With PTI inputs
