New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday set up an independent expert committee led by a former apex court judge to probe the allegations of snooping on journalists, activists, politicians, etc, using the Israeli Pegasus spyware.

A Bench led by Chief Justice NV Ramana said that Former top court judge RV Raveendran would be assisted by former IPS officer Alok Joshi and Dr Sundeep Oberoi, Chairman, Sub Committee in (International Organisation of Standardisation/International Electro-Technical Commission/Joint Technical Committee) in supervising the work of a three-member technical committee.

The members of the technical committee are Naveen Kumar Chaudhary, Professor (Cyber Security and Digital Forensics) and Dean, National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar, Dr Prabaharan P, Prof (School of Engineering), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, and Dr Ashwin Anil Gumaste, Institute Chair Associate Professor (Computer Science and Engineering), IIT, Bombay.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it would set up an expert committee to probe into alleged use of Israeli spyware Pegasus for mounting surveillance on Indian citizens.

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, while observing the case on Thursday, which had on September 13 reserved its order on petitions seeking an SIT probe into the allegations, said that inquiry would be conducted into the allegations that politicians, journalists and activists were snooped on using Pegasus spyware. The committee likely to be formed next week.

Justice Ramana informed senior advocate CU Singh about constitution of a committee during the hearing of an unconnected matter, who was presenting one the clients. “Please tell other lawyers too that we will pass our order next week,” the CJI told Singh.

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