Ground Report | New Delhi: List of Pegasus hack victims in India; Israel's surveillance company NSO Group's spyware- Pegasus Spyware is once again in the news. Forbidden stories and Amnesty International have claimed that 10 governments around the world are spying on their people. This investigation has been named Pegasus Project.
This is not the first time the Israeli spyware Pegasus has been accused of spying on politicians and journalists.
List of Pegasus hack
Some of the prominent Indians whose names are mentioned in the list are:
Rahul Gandhi, former Congress president
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Railways, IT and Communications and his wife
Prahlad Singh Patel, Central MoS Jal Shakti. (The list also includes 15 of his close aides, including his wife, personal secretaries, political and office colleagues, his cook and gardener)
Prashant Kishor, election strategist
Ashok Lavasa, former election commissioner
Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress MP and national general secretary of the party
Gagandeep Kang, top scientist and virologist
Hari Menon, India head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Jagdeep Chokhar, head of Association of Democratic Reforms
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Alankar Sawai, close aide of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
Sachin Rao, member of Congress Working Committee
Pradeep Awasthi, personal secretary to former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje (when she was the CM)
Sanjay Kachru, Union minister Smriti Irani’s OSD during 2014-15
Pravin Togadia, former international working president of VHP
M Hari Menon, who leads the India Office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Former Delhi University Professor SAR Geelani's phone number was found to be infected between 2017 and 2019.
List of Journalists, lawyers and activists
Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times
Prashant Jha, Hindustan Times
Rahul Singh, Hindustan Times
Aurangzeb Naqshbandi, Hindustan Times
Saikat Dutta, former Hindustan Times
Vijaita Singh, The Hindu
Muzamil Jaleel, The Indian Express
Ritika Chopra, The Indian Express
Sushant Singh, former The Indian Express
Sandeep Unnithan, India Today
Siddharth Varadarajan, co-founder of The Wire
Swati Chaturvedi, The Wire
Devirupa Mitra, The Wire
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Rohini Singh, The Wire
M.K. Venu, The Wire
J Gopikrishnan, The Pioneer
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, journalist and adviser, NewsClick
Manoranjana Gupta, editor-in-chief, Frontier TV
Shabir Hussein Buchh, independent journalist
Iftikar Gilani, journalist covering J&K
Smita Sharma, independent journalist and news anchor
Prem Shankar Jha, Indian economist, journalist
Santosh Bhartiya, journalist and ex-MP
Deepak Gidwani, independent journalist
Bhupinder Singh Sajjan, Punjabi journalist
Jaspal Singh Heran, Punjabi Journalist
Hassan Babar Nehru, lawyer and activist in J&K
Umar Khalid, JNU scholar, is currently in jail under UAPA
Thirumurugan Gandhi, activist arrested under UAPA
Rona Wilson, activist arrested under UAPA
Rupali Jadhav, arrested under UAPA
Degree Prasad Chouhan, activist
Laxman Pant, activist
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