Bhima Koregaon: Phones to be sent to probing committee
The Hindu
The technical committee requested the director general of the NIA on January 30, 2022 to arrange for mobile phones of accused
A special court in Mumbai on Tuesday allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s plea to send phones of seven accused in the Bhima Koregaon caste violence case of 2018 to the Supreme Court appointed committee looking into the allegations of unauthorised surveillance of Pegasus.
On October 27, 2021, the Supreme Court had constituted a technical committee comprising of Prof. Naveen Chaudhary, Prof. P Prabhakaran and Prof. Ashwin Gumaste overseen by Justice R.V. Raveendran, former judge of the Supreme Court.
The technical committee requested the director general of the NIA on January 30, 2022 to arrange for mobile phones of accused – Sudha Bharadwaj, Rona Wilson, Hany Babu, Shoma Sen, Anand Teltumbde, Vernon Gonsalves and Varavara Rao as it was informed to the committee that their phones have been allegedly infected by the Pegasus spyware.