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Journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
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Pegasus Depositions: Mr. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
On October 27th 2021, the Supreme Court constituted a special Technical Committee to investigate the multiple allegations of the illegal use of Pegasus spyware against the Government of India. The Committee was formed after the Union Government refused to reveal sufficient information on its use.
The Pegasus Technical Committee conducted several deposition hearings between December 10th, 2021, and February 14th, 2022. The Committee heard petitioners, victims of the surveillance and cybersecurity experts. Mr. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, an independent journalist, was one of the petitioners in the Pegasus case. He explained that he was approached by Forbidden Stories for being a potential victim to surveillance, and commented on the dangers of the Spyware.
Timeline of Events
Mr. Paranjoy recounted that on March 18th 2021 he was approached by a friend and fellow journalist, Sandhya Ravishankar, who represented a France-based NGO called Forbidden Stories. She claimed that Forbidden Stories holds a leaked database of phone numbers belonging to journalists, who were suspected to be spied on with use of the Pegasus Spyware. She informed Mr. Paranjoy that his phone number was found in the database.
Mr. Paranjoy agreed to provide a digit
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Reddy, Kalimekolan Sreenivas
Press Council of India
India
Corruption