Legal hold that starts after the deletion sprint is a chronology problem

Cyber Desk · Insight. Series: Digital disputes, as Indian courts actually see them.

Legal hold that starts after the deletion sprint is a chronology problem.

A hold email goes out two days after the purge script. Someone will ask what duty existed when the deletions ran, who authorised them, and what logs remain. Litigation hold is timing plus notice — not a retrospective sticker. If preservation instructions arrive after the wipe, the case still has to explain the gap. Chronology is the issue. Marketing language about “we issued a hold” does not erase the earlier sprint.

Hold after purge.

Still a chronology fight.