Pegasus project: Top ED officer, Kejriwal aide, PMO and NITI Aayog officials on list

Israeli spyware Pegasus developed by the NSO Group — now at the heart of the alleged state surveillance of thousands of human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, politicians, and dissidents in countries including India — also targeted Rajeshwar Singh, a senior Enforcement Directorate officer who led several high-profile investigations, The Wire has reported.

Besides Singh’s two numbers, four of his family members also seem to have been targeted by the spyware.

The leaked global database, first accessed by French non-profit Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International, has also shown V K Jain, a former IAS officer who worked as a personal assistant to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, to be a person of interest. Contact details of an official each from the PMO and NITI Aayog were also found in the leaked data.