PEGASUS was very much in news three years ago when several top journalists, opposition leaders and even two ruling party ministers have complained about their phones etc being bugged.
There was literary a storm among the media fraternity with senior journalists had complained about the PEGASUS intervention by the powers that be to encroach on their freedom of speech, privacy and what not.
There were debates on television channels and affected journalists and the media organisations had held several protest meetings and demonstrations against the ruling political dispensation in and outside the Press Club of India precincts. Even memorandums were presented to the top brass in the government.
This was considered to be the greatest ploy of the ruling party political dispensation to spy on the privacy of senior journalists, political opponents etc . However, things subsided down after the passage of time. But PEGASUS again erupted after a debate on this once most controversial topic came into focus.
The American Court has held NSO group responsible for PEGAS symbolic of clandestinely intervening into the privacy of Individuals.
The court has catagorically said that the NSO GROUP is solely responsible for the entire PEGASUS imbroglio.
The decision of American Court has been disclosed in a matter in which the WhatsApp group had filed the case against PEGASUS.
The judge hearing this case in US namely Philips Hamilton has catagorically ruled that an Israeli Spyware producer / manufacturer is primarily responsible/ accountable for targeting 140 WhatsApp groups.
The judge also said that the NSO group is solely responsible for violating the American laws in this regard.
Those who were clandestinely planted with the Pegasus spywares and were its victim were politicians, political rebels, senior government bureaucrats, journalists, human right activists, central ministers, senior opposition leader, and senior social activists.
The NSO group was however blacklisted during the US Joe Biden government. The American government agencies had issued directives not to buy the PEGSUS related equipments and other equipments from NSO.
There were accusations against PEGASUS related company in Israel that this equipment was used worldwide by the ruling political governments in several countries to target their political opponents as well as intellectuals and journalists for hacking and spying creating quite a Havoc in India and other countries of the globe.
Three years ago politics in India had gained momentum against the ruling political dispensation when the phones etc of opposition leaders and journalists were bugged creating quite a furore and uproar in parliament and society. Even two of the ruling party ministers Phones were bugged with PEGASUS clandestinely.
The BJP led NDA government was under question worldwide. This was particularly because the NSO had catagorically said that their dealings are purely with the governments and govt. related agencies.
