Members of the student wing of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) have been detained. They are accused of planning to screen a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots inside the Osmania University campus. 

Police informed on Thursday that six members of the students' union had gathered in front of the Arts College on the campus a day earlier and started planning to screen the documentary without permission. He was detained, but later released. 

He said, 'They (students) did not show the documentary. They were planning (to do so)… Since they did not have permission (to show the documentary), they were immediately taken into preventive custody. The Center recently blocked access to the documentary 'India: The Modi Question' on social media platforms such as YouTube. 

The Students' Federation of India (SFI) organized a screening of a BBC documentary at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) here on January 26, while the ABVP, the student wing of the RSS, screened the controversial film 'The Kashmir Files' on the campus.

Earlier, students' group Fraternity Movement had organized a screening of a BBC documentary on the University of Hyderabad campus on January 21 without any prior notice or permission, following which the university authorities had sought a report on the incident to take necessary action.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had rejected the documentary, calling it a piece of propaganda. The ministry had said it lacked objectivity and reflected a colonial mindset. The two-part documentary claims to examine certain aspects related to the 2002 Gujarat riots when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief minister of the state.