Google, which supports web neutrality and “an identical web” in America, supposedly attempted to stop the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), a body that represents a number of the biggest internet companies in India including Google, from choosing an anti zero-evaluation stand in its entry to the Department of Telecom’s report on web neutrality.

The findings come through Vineeta Dixit, a part of Google’s Public Policy and Government Relations team released by policy and technology news website Medianama and leaked e-mails between the IAMAI’s government relations committee.

“We want to file powerful protest against this conceptualization and also would request you to remove this  from the entry,” says Dixit’s e-mail to the IAMAI committee and says that there’s no consensus on zero-evaluation in the nation yet. Zero-evaluation is a telecom business term that refers to information that telecom operators or content suppliers do not directly pay for but instead subsidis customers. Critics say that zero- the web divides into paid as well as free grades and finally ends up hurting smaller content suppliers who can’t afford to pay telecom operators to zero-speed their content for end users.

“Google has been suspiciously quiet on the matter of net neutrality and has even jumped a parliamentary standing committee deposit it was invited for,” says Medianama’s editor and web neutrality activist Nikhil Pahwa. “Over time, it’s taken strong positions in favour of an open net. But it’s also done zero-evaluation deals with Airtel in the past few years and is no longer expressing support for web neutrality.”