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Justice Madan B. Lokur, whom the Mamata Banerjee government appointed on Monday to a two-member judicial probe into the Pegasus controversy, has often found himself at odds with the Narendra Modi government.
So much so that last October, the Centre had rushed to stall the Supreme Court’s move to appoint him as a one-man committee to monitor efforts to prevent Delhi’s air pollution. The government got the court to withhold the appointment by promising an ordinance on air quality management.
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As a sitting judge, Justice Lokur had headed a bench that delivered an unpalatable verdict for the Modi government on extra-judicial killings.
Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced the nation’s first commission to probe the Pegasus snooping allegations, shortly before setting off for Delhi on a five-day trip during which she will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several Opposition leaders.
Bengal’s two-man commission of inquiry will be made up of the retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Madan B. Lokur, and the former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya. It has to submit its findings and recommendations within six months from Monday.
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Under its terms of reference, the commission is to ascertain whether any interception occurred; identify the state and non-state actors involved, if any; determine the mechanism used for the alleged hacking; find out whether Pegasus or any other spyware was used; examine the information collected, altered, stored or used; and gather the details of how people were affected.
KOLKATA: The West Bengal government on Monday set up a two-member commission to probe the allegations of snooping in the state arising out of the Pegasus issue, with CM Mamata Banerjee saying “we need to wake up those who refuse to wake up.”
The panel comprises retired Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur and former Calcutta HC chief justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya.
“We hoped the Centre would order an SC-monitored probe but they have not,” Bengal is the first state to do so,” said Mamata.Last week, she had demanded that the Centre set up an SC-monitored probe panel.
The commission has been formed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952. The 12-point terms of reference for the commission include finding out whether the “interceptions” took place and the identity of “state and non-state actors involved in such reported interception”.
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