Indrani Mukherjea, Chairperson of INX Media, of which News X is a part, said that it was an HR matter and a statement would be issued soon. The statement released by the company said: “There have been rumours in the media circles about the circumstances pertaining to the termination of the services of Mr Avirook Sen, Executive Editor, NewsX, the forthcoming English News channel of INX News private limited. We would like to state that the company was forced to summarily terminate Mr Sen’s services because he was found to be utilizing his office laptop to access pornographic content on the internet. This is violative of company policy, besides being illegal as per the law of the land. Consequently, Mr Sen’s employment agreement was terminated”.

Former editor of The Hindustan Times and columnist Vir Sanghvi was heading the channel till last week when he resigned following differences with Mukherjea. INX Media is controlled by Indrani and her husband Peter Mukherjea and the news channel was announced in October last year.