{"id":333797,"date":"2021-09-13T04:07:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333797"},"modified":"2021-09-13T04:07:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:37:56","slug":"cji-ramana-why-government-wont-file-affidavit-in-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cji-ramana-why-government-wont-file-affidavit-in-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"CJI Ramana: Why government won&#8217;t file affidavit in Supreme Court?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333414\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/in-deep-slumber-supreme-court-pulls-up-fines-political-parties-over-criminal-candidates-920x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/in-deep-slumber-supreme-court-pulls-up-fines-political-parties-over-criminal-candidates-920x425.jpg 920w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/in-deep-slumber-supreme-court-pulls-up-fines-political-parties-over-criminal-candidates-920x425-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/in-deep-slumber-supreme-court-pulls-up-fines-political-parties-over-criminal-candidates-920x425-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/in-deep-slumber-supreme-court-pulls-up-fines-political-parties-over-criminal-candidates-920x425-696x322.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/in-deep-slumber-supreme-court-pulls-up-fines-political-parties-over-criminal-candidates-920x425-909x420.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Centre said to the Supreme Court, it would not file a detailed affidavit on petition seeking for probe into the apparent\u00a0use of the Pegasus spyware. It said it would establish a committee of experts to look into charges of illegal surveillance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to solicitor General Tushar Mehta -&#8220;existence of whether a particular software was used or not, cannot become part of an affidavit or subject of public discourse. Target groups, terror groups should not know what software is being used, &#8220;We will set up a committee of domain experts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Solicitor General said the petitioners who say their numbers were put under interception can be considered by the committee. The committee report will be placed before your lordships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to CJI NV Ramana, &#8220;We reserve orders. This is for interim orders. You have two-three days, Mr. Mehta. If you do any rethink, you can mention it before this court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Supreme Court prompted the government that it understood the &#8216;national security&#8217; argument, but that it was only asked to respond to claims of hacking of individuals&#8217; phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre said to the Supreme Court, it would not file a detailed affidavit on petition seeking for probe into the apparent\u00a0use of the Pegasus spyware. It said it would establish a committee of experts to look into charges of illegal surveillance. According to solicitor General Tushar Mehta -&#8220;existence of whether a particular software was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,1801],"tags":[14593,14469,2393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333798,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333797\/revisions\/333798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}