The Supreme Court on Friday, 3 February, issued notice to the government on petitions challenging its decision to block public access to BBC's documentary titled "India: The Modi Question."

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and MM Sundresh directed the Union government to produce the original records relating to the order on the next date of hearing, which will be in April 2023.

The bench was considering one petition jointly filed by journalist N Ram, Advocate Prashant Bhushan and TMC MP Mahua Moitra and another petition filed by Advocate ML Sharma.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had, on 21 January, issued directions for blocking multiple YouTube videos of the first episode of BBC's documentary 'India: The Modi Question'. Tweets by users on the documentary were also blocked.

Source: The Quint