As per the latest reports, the Supreme Court will be announcing the judgement on Wednesday on a batch of petitions that would seek court-monitored probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping matter.
Experts Expressed Inability To Join The Probe
A bench headed by the Chief Justice N.V Ramana had orally informed the senior Advocate CU Singh who is appearing for one of the petitioners in the Pegasus matter that some of the experts have expressed that they won’t be able to join the probe due to personal reasons and an order committee is expected soon.
The CJI said that the court wanted to pass the orders this week but it was deferred as some members who wanted to be the part of the technical committee had expressed difficulties regarding the same.
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He said, “That is why it is taking time to constitute the technical expert committee,”. Further adding that the court will finalised the members of the technical committee soon. On September 23, the Supreme Court indicated that they may soon set up a technical committee to probe the Pegasus spyware allegations.
Centre Ready To Disclose Details To Domain Experts But Not Submit Affidavit In Court
As per the reports, the Central government has already proposed to set up an expert panel which would be composed of independent members to examine the snooping allegation. On September 13, the Centre informed the SC that they do not wish to submit a detailed affidavit regarding the case as part of national security. However, they would submit the same to a panel of domain experts.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta who represents the Centre, informed the court that there are multiple terror organizations that better don’t get to know the softwares they use to combat terror.
“It has its own pitfalls”, he added.
