New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the Pegasus case on Tuesday. In this matter, the government has proposed to constitute an expert committee on its behalf to investigate. In the last hearing, the court had issued a notice to the government saying that it would consider the order after seeing the government’s reply.
There are 15 petitions pending in the Supreme Court for a fair investigation into the Pegasus case. The petitions were filed by senior journalist N. Ram, Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas, former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha among others have filed the petition.
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The Center has been accused of spying on politicians, journalists, former judges and civilians through Israeli spyware. On August 17, the court had adjourned the hearing by 10 days and given time to the Center to file a detailed reply.
The Center has termed the allegations of espionage as baseless while proposing to constitute an expert committee to clear the doubts of the petitioners. The petitioners had opposed the Centre’s short reply in the last hearing. He had sought a detailed affidavit from the government to state whether it had used Pegasus spyware or not.
In the previous hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, expressed his inability to give a detailed affidavit, saying, “Petitioners want the government to disclose which software it uses and which does not. In interest. , all this cannot be said in the form of affidavit. If in future, a website publishes news on the use of military equipment, will we disclose all those things publicly?”
The Solicitor General, while insisting on the formation of an expert committee, had said, “The government is not saying that it will not tell anything to anyone, but some information cannot be made public by filing an affidavit. Let the Government of India form a committee. The government will tell everything to the committee. That committee will report to the court.”
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