A Supreme Court-appointed committee which probed into the Pegasus snooping scandal has concluded that the Israeli spyware was not found in the 29 mobile phones examined by it even as it detected some other malware in five of the phones.
The panel, headed by retired Supreme Court judge R.V. Raveendran, submitted its report to the apex court last month. The panel said the government did not fully cooperate while examining the phone for the malware.
The Pegasus panel, in its report submitted in the Supreme Court, said the presence of controversial Israeli spyware Pegasus was not conclusively established in 29 mobile phones examined, and also the Central government did not cooperate in the .
The top court-appointed panel said five out of 29 mobile phones were possibly infected with some malware, but that does not mean it was Pegasus spyware.