https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/page1/pegasus-snooping-non-issue--govt.html
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said in the House that the Pegasus controversy was a “non-issue” and that the Government was ready for discussions on people-related issues. He said IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has already given a detailed statement on the issue in both the Houses.
Shukla Sen: It's now clear as daylight that the regime is hellbent on stonewalling any
discussion on the Pegasus snooping issue in the Parliament.
The BJP members had boycotted the meeting of the IT standing committee meet
too to stall any discussion on the issue there and the government officials
scheduled to attend declined to at the last moment.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pegasus-row-cji-led-bench-to-hear-petition-by-n-ram-sashi-kumar-on-august-5/article35659509.ece A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana will on August 5 hear a petition filed by senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar for an independent probe headed by a former or sitting top court judge into the mass surveillance of over 142 potential “targets”, including journalists, lawyers, ministers, Opposition politicians, constitutional functionaries and civil society activists, using military-grade Israeli spyware Pegasus.
https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/law-and-order/on-pegasus-snoopgate-supreme-court-to-hear-plea-seeking-court-monitored-probe-on-august-5.html CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas filed a writ petition moving the apex court for a court-monitored investigation executed by an SIT into the alleged Pegasus snooping issue. "It is only an evasive statement of the Government. The Government has unequivocally accepted the statement of the company, NSO, which owns the alleged spyware technology and blindly accepted their version without investigation." The company in question, NSO, however, has rubbished the entire report.
https://m.timesofindia.com/india/congress-james-bond-of-spying-when-in-govt-pegasus-a-fabricated-issue-naqvi/amp_articleshow/84941587.cms
Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said the party was "James Bond of spying" when in power and it now wants to waste Parliament's time over "fake and fabricated" issues.