IT major HCL Technologies on Friday said it would cooperate with the London police in the probe into the alleged attempted destruction of data stored in its Indian facility by Rupert Murdoch-owned News International.
HCL also claimed that it does not and has not stored any data of News International.
News of the World, a subsidiary of News International, had been allegedly hacking the phones of celebrities, politicians and even kin of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to publish stories on them.
The 168-year-old leading Sunday tabloid of Britain stopped publishing since last Sunday.
In London, Labour MP Tom Watson, who has led the campaign to expose the phone hacking, told an emergency Commons debate: “I believe James Murdoch (Mr Rupert Murdoch’s son) should be suspended from office while the police now investigate what I believe was his personal authorisation to plan a cover-up of this scandal.”
He also said he wanted detectives to ask Mr Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, whether they knew of an attempted destruction of data at a storage facility in Chennai.
HCL in a statement from its Europe office, said News International was an existing client of the company and it manages the company’s IT infrastructure based on an IT outsourcing agreement.
The company does not and has not stored any data (of News International) either in the UK or anywhere else in the world. It has been cooperating with the Metropolitan Police at the request of News International.