NEW DELHI: Indian police on Friday detained students in New Delhi after stopping the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during deadly sectarian riots in 2002. The students at Delhi University had followed several campuses around the country in staging a broadcast, defying
The violence began after 59 Hindu pilgrims were killed in a fire on a train. Thirty-one Muslims were convicted of criminal conspiracy and murder over that incident.The documentary quoted a previously classified British foreign ministry report which said the violence was"politically motivated" and the aim"was to purge Muslims from Hindu areas".
India has dismissed the series as a"hostile" propaganda piece and ordered big social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube to block sharing or streaming it under controversial information technology laws. But defiant groups of students there and at numerous college campuses across India have gathered to watch the documentary on laptops and phone screens.
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