New Delhi : The Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana will on Wednesday deliver its judgment on a batch of petitions seeking court-monitored probe into Pegasus scandal.
The pleas alleged that the government agencies used Israeli spyware Pegasus to snoop prominent citizens, politicians and journalists, and that independent investigation was essential to bring truth out.
The case blew up after an international media consortium reported that over 300 verified mobile numbers from India were potential targets for surveillance using Pegasus spyware.
In the case’s last hearing on 13th of September, the Central Government refused to divulge on whether it used or did not use the malware. At that time, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who represented the government, said the matter was related to national security and hence cannot be made public or revealed by an affidavit.
