RSS claims anti-India forces using the SC as 'tool' over BBC row

The Supreme Court was being used as a "tool", said Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated Panchjanya (weekly) on the Supreme Court's notice to the Center over pleas challenging its order to block social media links to a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The BBC released a documentary — 'India: The Modi Question' — on the 2002 post-Godhra riots and the role of the Gujarat government under then-Chief Minister Narendra Modi. An editorial in Panchjanya, citing the Supreme Court's notice to the Center about the BBC documentary, said, "The Supreme Court was created to protect the interests of our country, but India's opponents are using it as a tool in their efforts." to make way for them."

After trying to 'save' terrorists in the name of human rights, creating 'obstacles' to the country's growth in the name of environment, now they are trying to give anti-India forces the right to do anti-India propaganda in India itself, the magazine mentioned in the editorial. The editorial called the BBC documentary "propaganda" to defame India and said it was "false" and "based on fiction".

The editorial also pointed out that the Supreme Court runs on taxpayers' money and that under Indian law it functions for the good of the country. Launching a scathing attack on the Supreme Court, the Panchjanya editorial went on to say that all anti-national forces are using the provisions of "our democracy, our generosity and our civilized standards" against us.

Ending the petition as "totally ill-conceived" and "absolutely baseless", the Supreme Court last week rejected a plea seeking to impose a blanket ban on the BBC in India for publishing the controversial documentary.

Another series of petitions challenging the government's decision to block the document will be heard in April.