SC asks for Center’s position on Pegasus

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Agencies / Update: Aug 6, 2021, 6:00 AM IST

The Supreme Court said on Thursday that the allegations of espionage linked to Pegasus were serious, if the newspaper information is correct, and called on the Centers to rule on the petitions, including those from the Editors Guild of India and the senior reporter N. Ram, looking for an investigation. in the issue of Israeli spyware. Opening the argument, lead attorney Kapil Sibal, representing Ram, submitted to a tribunal consisting of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Judge Surya Kant that Pegasus is malicious technology and that it is entirely illegal because it is infiltrates our lives by phone and hears and watches. Sibal stressed that this was an attack on privacy and human dignity. To this, Chief Justice Ramana said: Before we get into all of this, we have some questions. Without a doubt, the allegations are serious, if the newspaper reports are correct. However, he noted: The majority of petitions rely on foreign newspapers, but where is the verifiable material to allow us to order an investigation? The surveillance issue arose 2 years ago, in May 2019. I don’t see any serious effort to bring up the issue, why now suddenly? Stressing that the petitioners who moved the Supreme Court are well informed and should have made an effort to collect more documents, he said: We are not saying newspaper articles are not credible.

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