Welcome SC decision on Pegasus, will continue to raise issue in Parliament: Rahul Gandhi

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that he was happy with the Supreme Court’s decision to order an independent probe into the Pegasus issue and it was a “big step” towards getting to “the truth”.

“I hope they (Supreme Court) will do their job and provide justice. But this is a deeper problem. If the Prime Minister is using this as a personal tool…if the data is arriving on the Prime Minister’s desk, then it is totally criminal…We will follow it up,” he said, while claiming that the government of Karnataka “was toppled using Pegasus spyware”.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed a committee comprising three technical members and supervised by its retired judge Justice R V Raveendran to conduct a