Pegasus snooping attempt to 'crush' Indian democracy: Rahul Gandhi
The HinduCongress leader Rahul Gandhi on October 27 termed as a "big step" the Supreme Court appointing a three-member panel of cyber experts to probe the alleged use of Israeli spyware Pegasus for surveillance of certain people, and expressed confidence that truth would come out. Asserting that alleged snooping using Pegasus is an "attempt to crush Indian democracy", Mr. Gandhi said it is a "big step that the Supreme Court has said that they are going to look into this matter. “Pegasus spyware was ordered either by Prime Minister or the Home Minister,” Mr. Gandhi said. Prime Minister is not above the Law.” "We were asking three basic questions — who authorised Pegasus, which agency, which person authorised Pegasus as we all know Pegasus cannot be bought by a private individual, it has to be bought by a government; second question was who was it used against; final thing was, did any other country have access to information of our people," the former Congress chief said.