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HCL denies charges of destroying NoW data
Indian IT major HCL Technologies has denied allegations that emails belonging to its client, News International were destroyed at its Chennai office.
Indian IT major HCL Technologies has denied allegations that emails belonging to its client, News International were destroyed at its Chennai office.
HCL’s client News International owns the ‘News of the World’ tabloid, and the Indian IT major manages its IT infrastructure based on an IT outsourcing agreement signed in 2009.
During a perjury trial involving former Scottish Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan, it was stated that News International’s email data had been destroyed in HCL’s Chennai office. However, it was later discovered that the emails were stored in a warehouse in London.
On Wednesday, during a debate in the House of Commons, Labour MP Tom Watson said there had been an attempt to destroy data at the HCL storage facility in Chennai, India.
Lawyers for Sheridan now want his conviction for perjury to be reviewed in view of the revelation that emails had not been destroyed in Chennai.
