London, Aug 2 (ANI): An Indian IT firm has revealed that media company News International asked them to delete a large number of emails from its system on nine separate occasions in the past 15 months.
HCL told the home affairs committee that it knew of nine instances where the publisher requested the deletion of emails between April 2010 and July this year.
The company, however, said it noticed 'nothing untoward' about the requests, the Daily Mail reports.
"My client is aware of nothing which appeared abnormal, untoward or inconsistent with its contractual role," HCL's lawyer Stuart Benson wrote in a letter the committee.
"It is of course a matter entirely for News International, the police and your committee as to whether there was any other agenda or subtext when issues of deletion arose, and that is a matter on which my client cannot comment," the letter said.
The requests included wiping over 200,000 delivery failure messages, pruning old emails from the archives to stop the system crashing, and deleting duplicate emails after users were moved to a new version of software, the paper said.
Benson emphasized that since HCL did not store any data for News International, any suggestion that the IT firm deleted material held on behalf of the media company was 'utterly without foundation'. (ANI)
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