Congress leader Rahul Gandhi The Supreme Court on Wednesday termed the appointment of a three-member panel of cyber experts to probe the alleged use of Israeli spyware Pegasus to monitor certain people as a “major step” and expressed confidence that the truth would emerge. At a press conference here, Gandhi alleged that only the Prime Minister or the Home Minister could have ordered the use of Pegasus spyware.
He recalled that the opposition had jointly raised the issue during the last Parliament session and stalled the proceedings demanding a probe. “We were asking three basic questions – who authorized Pegasus, which agency, which person authorized Pegasus. As we all know, Pegasus cannot be bought by a private person, it has to be bought by the government. The second question was who was it used against; the last thing was whether any other country had access to the information of our people,” the former Congress chief said.
Stating that the alleged spying using Pegasus is an “attempt to crush Indian democracy”, Gandhi said it was a “big step that the Supreme Court has said they are going to look into the matter. I believe it”. That we will find out the truth of this”. “We are very happy that the Supreme Court has accepted to look into it. Parliament is the institution where we will take it up again and we will try to have a debate in Parliament. I am sure BJP will not like that debate so they will make sure that the debate is stalled but we will try to have that debate.”
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed a three-member panel of cyber experts to probe the alleged use of Israeli spyware Pegasus to monitor certain people in India, observing that every citizen needs protection from breach of privacy and only “National Security by the State” is invoked. Don’t make the court a “silent spectator”.
A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli, finding the material “prima facie to consider”, declined the Centre’s plea to appoint an expert panel on its own, saying that such The course would violate the established judicial principle against prejudice.
Three experts on cyber security, digital forensics, networks and hardware were appointed by the Supreme Court to “interrogate, investigate and determine” whether Pegasus spyware was used to spy on citizens and oversee their investigations by the apex court. Former Judge RV Raveendran. The three-member technical panel, which has been given wide-ranging powers, will comprise of eminent experts, Naveen Kumar Choudhary, Charhan P and Ashwin Anil Gumaste, and will report to Justice Raveendran.
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