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BBC film on Indian PM Modi, 2002 riots draws government ire

A security personnel speaks to people from inside the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Tensions escalated in the university after a student group said it planned to screen a banned documentary that examines Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots, prompting dozens of police equipped with tear gas and riot gear to gather outside campus gates. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Students watch security personnel guard the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Tensions escalated in the university after a student group said it planned to screen a banned documentary that examines Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots, prompting dozens of police equipped with tear gas and riot gear to gather outside campus gates. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Security personnel guard the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Tensions escalated in the university after a student group said it planned to screen a banned documentary that examines Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots, prompting dozens of police equipped with tear gas and riot gear to gather outside campus gates. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Students watch security personnel guard the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Tensions escalated in the university after a student group said it planned to screen a banned documentary that examines Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots, prompting dozens of police equipped with tear gas and riot gear to gather outside campus gates. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Students watch security personnel guard the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Tensions escalated in the university after a student group said it planned to screen a banned documentary that examines Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots, prompting dozens of police equipped with tear gas and riot gear to gather outside campus gates. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Activists of the Democratic Youth Front of India hold a public screening of BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question” outside a bus terminus in Kochi, India, Tuesday, Jan.24, 2023. Days after India blocked the BBC documentary that examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots and banned people from sharing it online, authorities are scrambling to halt screenings of the program at colleges and universities and restrict clips of it on social media, a move that has been decried by critics as an assault on press freedom. (AP Photo/Sunoj Ninan Mathew) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waits for the arrival of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi at Hyderabad house, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Days after India blocked a BBC documentary that examines Modi’s role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots and banned people from sharing it online, authorities are scrambling to halt screenings of the film in colleges and universities and restricting its clips on social media, a move that has been decried by critics as an assault on press freedom. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waits for the arrival of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi at Hyderabad house, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Days after India blocked a BBC documentary that examines Modi’s role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots and banned people from sharing it online, authorities are scrambling to halt screenings of the film in colleges and universities and restricting its clips on social media, a move that has been decried by critics as an assault on press freedom. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)