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On August 25, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the in-charge of BJP’s National Information & Technology Department Amit Malviya tweeted<\/a>, “Is having an IQ lower than Rahul Gandhi\u2019s a prerequisite for being in Congress? The SC hasn\u2019t alleged non cooperation by central Govt in the Pegasus case. It has merely said the stand of the Govt has been the same before the committee as well as the Supreme Court. Read the order.” This tweet by Malviya garnered more than 900 likes and close to 300 retweets.<\/p>\n

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Is having an IQ lower than Rahul Gandhi\u2019s a prerequisite for being in Congress?
\nThe SC hasn\u2019t alleged non cooperation by central Govt in the Pegasus case.
\nIt has merely said the stand of the Govt has been the same before the committee as well as the Supreme Court.
\nRead the order.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) August 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Malviya’s tweet was in reference to the tweet by the Indian National Congress about the hearing of the Pegasus case in the Supreme Court on Thursday, August 25, by a bench headed by outgoing Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Hima Kohli.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Congress (@INCIndia) August 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amit Malviya claimed in his tweet that the court had merely said that the government’s stand continues to remain the same and it did not allege “non-cooperation” by the central government. The tweet by Malviya also takes a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. It is important to note that Amit Malyvia’s tweet does not explain what “stand” of the government was being referred to by the apex court.<\/p>\n

Fact-check<\/h4>\n

On October 27, 2021, the Supreme Court formed<\/a> a three-member expert committee to look into the alleged misuse of Israeli spyware Pegasus by the Union Government for targeted surveillance on selected opposition leaders, activists, journalists and others as reported first by The Wire<\/a> as part of the Pegasus Project. The report claimed a digital forensic analysis conducted by Amnesty International\u2019s Security Lab had allegedly found that the phones of dozens of people were either targeted or had been infected by Pegasus spyware, sold by Israel\u2019s NSO Group.<\/p>\n

The committee, monitored by former apex court judge R V Raveendran submitted its final report<\/a> to the top court on August 2, 2022, in three parts \u2014 two parts by the technical committee and one by the retired judge overseeing the probe. On August 25, the three-judge bench heard the matter.<\/p>\n

Alt News went through the Twitter thread by Live Law (@LiveLawIndia<\/a>) and Bar&Bench (@barandbench<\/a>), two digital news agencies that reported the hearing live on Twitter. These threads noted that while going through the report, the CJI read out parts of it and made the oral observation<\/a> in the packed courtroom that the government had not cooperated with the investigation. He then told solicitor general Tushar Mehta that the Union government had taken the same stand in front of the investigation committee as it did in the apex court earlier, i.e., of non-cooperation with the probe. To this, the SG replied that he was not aware of it.<\/p>\n

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Solicitor General : I am not aware of that.#CJINVRamana<\/a> #Pegasus<\/a> #SupremeCourt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) August 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This oral observation made by the court was also widely reported by media outlets such as The Telegraph<\/a>, Scroll<\/a>, The Wire<\/a> and The Indian Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n