The Supreme Court of India has extended the timeline for filing the complaint or registering one application so that we could tackle the affected ones.

Apex Court has constituted a committee to look into the matter.

Pegasus Case and its affected person, Committee needs the mobile phones of the affected but it only has received an only two-person commitment to provide their phones to the committee.

The committee has requested the affected person to submit their phones before 8th February 2022.

Highlighted Facts

• The Committee constituted by Supreme Court has demanded the devices of the affected.
• The giant Company Apple has fixed the underlying flaws that were allowed Pegasus to operate last year.
• To submit their devices to the committee and its deadline time was 7 January before, but now it is changed.

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Yet only two persons have still submitted their commitment to the Supreme Court-appointed committee, the committee is looking into the Pegasus case and forcing the panel to extend the timeline for affected people to turn up before it.

The SC has given more time for searching the names of affected with their devices. The development comes under the novel allegations made in the Pegasus Spyware issue.

As per the report of the New York Times, it has been claimed that India has bought Spyware from Israel named Pegasus as a part of a deal of $2 billion (INR 14,900 crore). The deal was fixed with the Defence deal with Israel in 2017.

The controversy is again in the news when last Saturday the opposition leader commented over the spying activity they the current government is doing so with the opposition party leader and commented it as “Treason.”

One public notice was issued by the Supreme Court on Thursday, the Supreme Court has formed a technical team that will look into the matter of Spyware, and as per the initial appeal launched in January only two persons have given their mobile phones to the committee.

It said “therefore the technical committee once again requests those who have reasonable causes to believe their mobile instrument is affected with Pegasus Spyware to come forward to contact the technical committee with a reason as to why they believe that their mobile instrument may have been infected with Pegasus malware on or before February 8, 2022, by an email…” told by it.

The last notice that was issued has mentioned a timeline of 7 January. 

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