new delhi over three lakh viewers had watched the controversial documentary on nirbhaya and numerous people had downloaded it by late thursday evening despite every effort of the indian government to block its screening while bbc on wednesday night aired british filmmaker leslee udwins documentary the film was also up on internet sites from where people were freely watching it in fact the governments strenuous efforts appear to have only helped to give the film publicity the legal notice sent late on wednesday night cited the violation of conditions of the permission given to the filmmakers by making commercial use of the prison shoot and not showing the unedited footage to the tihar authorities bbc did not respond to the legal notice until late on thursday we are awaiting the response before deciding our next course of action said a home ministry official union home minister rajnath singh on thursday stated all i can say is that whatever is required will be done if conditions have been violated there will be appropriate actionread also ban only made video go viralblog nirbhaya revisited but not this way pleasereview indias daughter neither vulgar nor offensiverevoke ban on nirbhaya film editors guild while the government harped on conditions of filming the documentary being allegedly violated a group of feminist activists including kavita krishnan and indira jaisingh also called for a ban on the film not for its content but because the case is still in appeal in the courts and the films screening could weaken the case although the nirbhaya documentary was telecast only in uk the link showed up on social media within no time the link went viral on youtube receiving millions of hits by the time the government alerted the computer emergency response team certin to write to youtube for pulling it down in view of the restraining order issued on its telecast in india we have asked youtube to block it as the court order applies to all media including internet said a senior it ministry official a youtube spokesperson on thursday said that while we believe that access to information is the foundation of a free societywe continue to remove content that is illegal or violates our community guidelines once notified incidentally the link could still be viewed till late on thursday evening in a related development maker of the documentary leslee udwin flew out of india on wednesday evening just before bbc responded to a government of india communication sent to it on wednesday afternoon the home ministry letter had sought to restrain the broadcaster from telecasting the documentary bbc reverted only late on wednesday night informing the government that the documentary would be aired by bbc four in uk at 10pm gmt though the telecast would not be available in india the home ministry had on wednesday apart from writing to the bbc sent simultaneous communications to the ministry of external affairs requesting it to take up with bbc the matter relating to restraining