Video links to the documentary, 'India's Daughter', banned in India and telecast by the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, on Wednesday night in the UK and other countries, have been removed from Google's video sharing site, YouTube, a senior government official has said. A legal notice has also been sent to the BBC.
'We got a magistrate's order and so for compliance we wrote to Google and other ISPs. Google has removed it. As and when the police tell us of other sites who are carrying it, we are directing them to remove these,' said the government official.
Also, Aloke Verma, the director general of prisons, Tihar, has served a legal notice to BBC for violation of contract - which include using the opportunity to interview a convict for commercial use, showing content that violates the dignity of women and airing the documentary with without his approval.
MHA sources told NDTV that legal notice points to the fact that interview was used for commercial purposes and depicts woman in poor light, violating the conditions imposed when the interview was allowed. Also, Verma is believed to have said in the notice that film was aired without necessary clearances from the prison administration. 'Our next course of action will depend on BBC response,' a senior MHA official told NDTV.
Earlier on Thursday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said, 'We had asked to not release the documentary, but BB.