On Tuesday, the Supreme Court said the technical committee’s report on the Pegasus case will not be made public. The Court explained that if any report involves the country’s security and sovereignty, it cannot be shared openly. 

A bench led by Justice Surya Kant and Justice N Kotiswar was hearing petitions that requested an investigation into the alleged use of Israeli spyware Pegasus for surveillance. The judges also said they would need to decide how much of the technical report can be shared with the people involved in the case. "What is wrong if the country is using the spyware? To have a spyware, there is nothing wrong. Against whom it is used is the question. We cannot compromise or sacrifice the security of the nation," Justice Surya Kant said, as reported by Bar and Bench.

"Any report which touches the security and sovereignty of the country will not be touched. But individuals who want to know whether they are included, that can be informed. Yes, individual apprehension must be addressed but it cannot be made a document for discussion on the streets," the bench stated during the hearing.

In 2021, the Supreme Court of India ordered an investigation into allegations that government agencies used Israeli spyware to monitor politicians, journalists and activists. To carry out this investigation, the Court formed two committees — one for technical analysis and another for supervision.

A panel of three technical experts—Naveen Kumar Chaudhary, Prabaharan P, and Ashwin Anil Gumaste—who specialise in cyber security, digital forensics, networking, and hardware, was assigned the task of finding out whether Pegasus spyware had been used to spy on citizens. Their investigation was overseen by a monitoring committee led by Justice R.V. Raveendran, with assistance from former IPS officer Alok Joshi and cyber security expert Sundeep Oberoi.

On August 25, 2022, the Supreme Court said that the expert panel it had set up to investigate the alleged misuse of Pegasus spyware found malware in five out of the 29 mobile phones it examined. However, it could not confirm that the malware was actually Pegasus. The court will take up the matter again on July 30.