‘2 SC officers, lawyers, old no. of SC judge on Pegasus list’

NEW DELHI: Phone numbers of two Supreme Court officers were among alleged candidates for surveillance through Pegasus spyware, news portal The Wire reported on Wednesday.

In addition, a number that was earlier registered in the name of Justice Arun Mishra, who has retired, was also added to the list in 2019, said the report. Besides, there were names of some lawyers involved in high-profile cases, it added. The numbers of N K Gandhi and T I Rajput, who were in the writ section of the SC registry, were alleged to have been on the list.

But there was no forensic examination of their phones as they are no longer using the phones, which were with them when their names were allegedly added to the list in the spring of 2019.