The technical committee constituted by Supreme Court in the Pegasus spyware case has asked all state Director Generals of Police (DGPs) to inform it whether they have procured the software from Israel’s NSO Group. It is not known whether the committee sought similar information from the union home ministry or any other central ministry .
In a letter to DGPs of all states including Odisha on April 18, the technical committee asked them to specify the date of the procurement, and the type and quantity of licences if the states had procured the spyware.
“Did any state, state police, state intelligence or agency in the state/union territory of the government having access to Pegasus spyware use this on any citizen of India? If so, whether any permission/s or sanction/s for such use was obtained and if so from whom,” the secretary general of the Supreme Court has asked all the DGPs quoting the questions of the technical committee.
