Pegasus Snooping Row: Supreme Court Hearing On Pleas For Independent Probe-LIVE UPDATES

Divan : These are not some media reports. Two governments, US and France, have alerted the Israel govt and its response was sought. These are not just some media reports.

Shyam Divan for Jagdeep Chokkar says his client's phone was under surveillance.

CJI : If you know that your phone is hacked, why are you not filing an FIR? If you want to answer, answer that. There is no need for further elaboration.

Arora : If you have said in 2019 that you have not done, and now it is known that it has been done, there is a need to investigate. 

Senior Advocate Meenakshi Arora appearing for John Brittas  referring to the statement made by the former IT Minister RS Prasad in 2019 that "to the best of his knowledge, there was no unauthorized interception".

CU Singh : IT Act and the rules which states only centre and states can do this interception with strict checks and safeguards

CJI: You can file a case?

Singh: There is no effective remedy.

Meenakshi Arora: The  issue raised in Parliament in 2019 whether there was any interception to which the answer was given in negative

CU Singh now says that the names of the persons targeted were not known in 2019. The names were known after a forensic analysis was done by an international agency.

CJI : CJI: Truth has to come out, that’s a different story. We don’t know who’s names are there.

Sibal : Lawyers, Academicians, Activists have become terrorists if their names are included in list.

All we want is a notice at this stage.