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Pegasus Spyware row: SC to hear next week plea seeking inquiry headed by top court judge

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Pegasus Spyware row: SC to hear next week plea seeking inquiry headed by top court judge
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Pegasus Spyware: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear next week the plea of senior journalists N Ram and Sashi Kumar seeking an inquiry headed by a sitting or retired judge of the apex court to investigate into the reports of the government using Israeli software Pegasus to spy on
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politicians, activists, and journalists. A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said the court will hear the plea next week after senior advocate Kapil Sibal for the petitioners mentioned the matter for urgent hearing.
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Supreme Court Issues Contempt Notice To Suraz Trust MD For His Failure To Appear Before It Citing Covid Vaccination The petition filed by the senior journalists seeks a direction to the Centre to disclose if it or any of its agencies have used Pegasus Spyware either directly or indirectly to conduct surveillance in any manner. "Direct the Government of India to disclose if the Government of India or any of its agencies has obtained licenses for Pegasus spyware and, or used, employed it, either directly or indirectly, to conduct surveillance in any manner whatsoever," stated the plea. Supreme Court 'shocked' at use of Section 66A under IT Act, even after it was scrapped in 2007 It further asked the court to issue direction of constituting an inquiry to investigate the extent of surveillance on Indian citizens using the Pegasus spyware and other entities responsible for it, headed by sitting or retired judge of this court duly nominated by this court. The plea further said that the targeted surveillance using military-grade spyware is an unacceptable violation of the right to privacy which has been held to be a fundamental right under Articles 14, 19, and 21 by the Supreme Court in the KS Puttaswamy case. -PTC News-
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