The chief executive officer of Prasar Bharti, Shashi Shekhar has declined an offer to attend an event hosted by BBC citing the British broadcaster’s biased coverage of the recent communal violence in Delhi.

The event, to mark International Women’s Day, is being organised to felicitate Indian sportswomen.

In a letter to the Director General of BBC, Shekhar has pointed out that ground reports of the Delhi riots by the British broadcaster were “damningly silent” on the “murderous assault” on the men in uniform by a mob that resulted in death of a Head Constable while in the line of the duty and also resulted in the fatal injuries to received by a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP).