Pegasus Row: P Chidambaram Calls Centre's Statement A "Confession" In Court

Thursday, 19 August 2021Newsdesk

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the solicitor general telling the Supreme Court that the government has information which he cannot divulge in public by way of an affidavit is a "confession" that software-spyware was used, and sought to know if it was Pegasus and for what purpose it was used.

New Delhi, 19 August 2021

As per news report of NDTV, The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that divulging information on whether the country uses spyware like Pegasus or not would involve national security aspect as enemies of the nation or those indulging in terror activities would change or modulate their software. Reacting to the development, Mr Chidambaram said, "SG tells SC that the government has information which he cannot divulge in public by way of affidavit. That is a confession that software-spyware was used. For what, we do not know." "We want to know if that spyware-software was called Pegasus and for what purpose was it used," the former home minister said in a series of tweets. If the government answers these two questions, the remaining questions will answer themselves in due course, Mr Chidambaram said.

Source -NDTV