The technical committee must submit its findings on the Pegasus case to the supervising judge by June 20, 2022, according to a bench led by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana.
The Supreme Court of India appointed technical committee has been given four further weeks to complete its report on the Pegasus row inquiry.
The technical committee’s work should be completed by the end of May, according to a bench led by Chief Justice N V Ramana, and the supervising judge should be notified after that.
The supervising judge would then study and finalise the technical committee’s report, and submit it to the court for the perusal of the bench by June 20, 2022.
“Standard operating procedure for testing the ‘infected devices’ will be finalised too,” the Supreme Court said.
The technical committee informed the Supreme Court that it had tested 29 phones for malware and had recorded the comments of various petitioners, activists, and journalists.
Pegasus Spyware was also detected on Mobile Phones of the Spanish Prime Minister and Defence Minister earlier in May.
In March, Lawmakers unanimously decided to investigate potential EU law violations in the deployment of the Pegasus spying software, particularly in Hungary and Poland.
Citizen Lab, a cyber security watchdog based in Canada, said that Pegasus was used against Polish opposition figures.
An international media consortium had reported that over 300 verified Indian mobile phone numbers so far were on the list of potential targets for surveillance using the Pegasus spyware.
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