News Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Surendra Joshi
Updated Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:36 AM IST
Summary
Allowing Mehta’s request, the top court fixed February 25. The Supreme Court has formed a committee to investigate the matter. The committee had said in the past that the complainant and the general public should hand over their equipment i.e. mobile etc. to him for investigation.
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Allowing Mehta’s request, the top court fixed February 25. The Supreme Court has formed a committee to investigate the matter. The committee had said in the past that the complainant and the general public should hand over their equipment i.e. mobile etc. to him for investigation.
The hearing was earlier held on October 27 last year. The court then ordered the formation of a three-member panel of cyber experts to investigate allegations of using Israeli spyware to spy or monitor certain people in India. A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli listed 12 PILs in the matter. These include PILs filed by the Editors Guild of India and senior journalists N Ram and Shashi Kumar.
The committee constituted to probe the matter includes three experts on cyber security, digital forensics, networks and hardware. These were asked to interrogate, investigate and determine whether Pegasus spyware was used to spy on civilians. The task of overseeing its investigation was given to former apex court judge R V Raveendran. The members of the panel were Naveen Kumar Choudhary, Prabharan P and Ashwin Anil Gumaste.
headed by Justice Raveendran
Justice Raveendran, who is heading the monitoring panel, is assisted by former IPS officer Alok Joshi and Sandeep Oberoi, chairman of the sub-committee in the International Organization for Standardization/International Electro-Technical Commission/Joint Technical Committee, in overseeing the investigation of the technical panel. The bench had asked the committee to prepare a report after thorough investigation and place it before the court at the earliest.