[Pegasus case] Live Updates from Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of India will hear today, a slew of petitions seeking probe into allegations that Pegasus spyware created by an Israel company was used by the Government of India to snoop several persons including Indian journalists, activists, lawyers, officials, a former Supreme Court judge and others by infecting their electronic devices like mobile phones.The Supreme Court had constituted a 3-member expert committee to probe the scandal.The Court will consider the report by the committee today.Read more about the case here.Live updates from the hearing below..CJI: The report is technical in the first part, then the part is by the overseeing judge. This is the joint report submitted and by the overseeing judge Justice Raveendran.CJI: a file containing on the responses received is also enumerated. some of the confidential aspects is on section 3 which deals with malware, properties therein and how law enforcement agencies act on it.CJI: Section 6 contains malware, attribution, section 7 contains material extracted from mobile devices which contains personal information. then is information used to create new malware. none of the members have taken a salary.CJI: Another report is about technicality etc by the technical committee. The Justice Raveendran report observes that misuse of any of the software and how civilians can be protected from such misuse. It is a lengthy report which also has bits on accountability.CJI: One recommendation is to enact a law on surveillance and improved right to privacy , enhancing cyber security of nation, strengthening the protection of right to privacy of citizens, then mechanism for raise grievance regarding surveillance which is illegal.CJI: Then the overseeing judge is about the enactment to fill the lacuna of the parliament..CJI: We are uploading it on the website and there is no secret. we are concerned about technical committee 29 phones were given... in 5 phones some malware was found but the technical committee says it cannot be said to be pegasus. they say it cannot be said to be pegasus.CJI: We will look into this and see which portions can be releasedSr Adv Kapil Sibal: we dont have portions which have national security implications but we need to know what was the malware and if a redacted version can be given to the ones who gave their phones.Adv Vrinda Grover: Here my device was also examined and we need to know what was the malware as it was forensically examined. My client is also facing criminal chargesCJI: We constituted the committee after getting lot of feedbacks. We will look into how to move ahead.Grover: There can be something specific to my device.. so..CJI: i have not even seen the report fully. we just saw it nowSG Tushar Mehta: The technical committee has submitted a reportCJI: We have to see how much it can help. Technical committee say GOVERNMENT OF INDIA HAS NOT HELPED US..CJI: Technical committee says centre has taken the same stand as taken in courtSr Adv Shyam Divan: please give an early dateJustice Surya Kant: we will go through report and then share the report accordingly if some portions are not shareworthy..CJI: After tomorrow I will express my opinion as well..Adv ML Sharma: you are CJI on saturday as well. You can hear on SaturdayCJI: Yes yes let us see..CJI: List after 4 weeksAdv ML Sharma: It means no date.. Telangana matter also never came upMatter ends

[Pegasus case] Live Updates from Supreme Court

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