Centre can’t get away with tapping: Capt Amarinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 19

Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today condemned the hacking of private phones of top political leaders, journalists, businessmen, scientists, constitutional authorities and others as a shameful attack not just on individual privacy but also on national security by the BJP-led government at the Centre.

Supreme Court must step in on Pegasus report

The Supreme Court should take suo motu cognisance of the matter and take action against the NDA government. They have committed a horrendous sin and they have to be made to pay for it. –  Capt Amarinder Singh, CM

As the Pegasus spyware scandal unravelled within and outside Parliament, the Chief Minister termed it a shocking assault on India’s democratic polity by the Centre, which had compromised national security with this act.

The Chief Minister said with such snooping, which simply could not have been undertaken by the Israeli company without the Centre’s go-ahead, the NDA government had put sensitive information into the hands of various global agencies, governments and organisations with the potential to misuse it against the country.

“This is not only an attack on individual freedom but also on the security of our nation,” he said, urging the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance of the matter and take action against the NDA government.

“The Centre cannot get away with this. They have committed a horrendous sin and they have to be made to pay for it,” the Chief Minister said.