Shashi Tharoor seeks Supreme Court judge-monitored probe into Pegasus snooping allegations

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on July 26 demanded a Supreme Court judge-monitored probe into the Pegasus snooping allegations and indicated that Opposition parties would continue to disrupt Parliament’s proceedings until the government agrees to a debate on it.

He alleged that it appears that the government used public money for snooping for its “selfish political interests”.

Last week, an international media consortium reported that over 300 verified mobile phone numbers, including those of two ministers, over 40 journalists, three Opposition leaders besides scores of businesspersons and activists in India, could have been targeted for snooping through the Pegasus spyware of the Israeli firm NSO Group, which only sells the hacking software to “vetted” governments and government agencies.