Pegasus row: Editors Guild files plea in Supreme Court for SIT probe

THE EDITORS Guild of India has approached the Supreme Court, urging it to set up an independent Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe allegations of “procurement and use of spyware, hacking or electronic surveillance tools such as Pegasus in India”.

The plea referred to reports in international and national media on the Pegasus row and said that allegations of spying, using the software made by Israeli firm NSO Group, “raise grave concerns of abuse of office; dismantling of separation of power; infringement of fundamental rights to privacy, freedom of speech and expression, and freedom of the press; subversion of the democratic process; and commission of serious criminal offences”.