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| Government Serves Legal Notice |
| Government Serves Legal Notice to BBC, Asks YouTube to Remove Nirbhaya Documentary: 10 Developments
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| INDIA
, 5-March-2015
12:3:19 PM |
| government has served a legal notice to the British Broadcasting Corporation or BBC, which telecast the documentary 'India's Daughter', in the UK and other countries on Wednesday night. The film has been banned in India; video links to it were removed from YouTube this evening
1Home Ministry sources said the notice, sent by the top officer at Tihar Jail, alleges that the BBC aired the film without necessary clearances from the Delhi prison, where filmmaker Leslee Udwin conducted an interview of Mukesh Singh, a man on death row in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case.
2The notice, said sources, alleges that the interview has been used for commercial purposes and depicts women poorly, and so violates conditions imposed when the interview was allowed. "Our next course of action will depend on the BBC response," a senior Home Ministry official told NDTV.
3"We had asked to not release the documentary, but BBC still released it," Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday morning. Sources said the Home Ministry had on Wednesday afternoon sent a copy of a court order prohibiting the telecast of the documentary to BBC.
4The British broadcaster aired the documentary hours later. It said in a statement that it had brought forward the telecast from Sunday given the "intense level of interest."
5Video links to the film, easily accessed in India, proliferated soon after. Google's video sharing site Youtube was asked by the Indian government to take them down. "As and when the police tell us of other sites who are carrying it, we are directing them to remove these," said a government official.
6Google said in a statement, "While we believe that access to information is the foundation of a free society, and that services like YouTube help people express themselves and share different points of view,
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