Pegasus allegation an international conspiracy to malign India: Bommai

Bengaluru: Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday said the allegations of phone tapping using Israeli Pegasus software is an international conspiracy to spread misinformation and controversy to malign the nation.

His remarks come a day after an investigative consortium reported on Tuesday that phone numbers linked to a former Karnataka deputy chief minister and associates of two former CMs were potentially targeted for surveillance using Israeli spyware in 2019, prompting the Congress to blame the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the collapse of the state government at the time.

“It is a conspiracy involving foreign press where these kinds of misinformation campaigns have been done against India. In past too,