New Delhi: In the middle of the Snooping Pegasus line, congress on Friday claimed the allocation of grants to the National Security Council secretariat rose to RS 333 Crore in 2017-18 from RS 33 Crore the previous year, and asked whether this increase was related to “buying” spyware Israel.
Spokesman for the Pawan Khera said the government of UPA in 2011-12 had allocated Rs 17.43 Crore to the Secretariat of the National Security Council in terms of grants.
This number increased slightly to Rs 20.33 Crore in 2012-13 and further to 26.06 crore in 2013-14, he said, noting that the Secretariat of the National Security Council was mostly related to administration and coordination.
In 2014-15, when the Modi Government was in power, the number of grants to the Secretariat of the National Security Council increased to RS.
44.46 Crore, then down to RS 33 Crore in 2016-17, said Khera.
“But those who caused a serious flag and red problem was that in 2017-18, the new sub-head was added to the National Security Council Secretariat called Cyber’s security research and development.
Interestingly, that year, the allocation of grants to the national.
Security Council Secretariat surged From RS 33 Crores in the previous year until RS 333 Crores in 2017-18, and the chronology here reflects that Pegasus peeks allegedly beginning in the same year, “said Congress spokesman at a press conference.
What explains a large increase in grant allotment to the National Security Council Secretariat with RS 300 Crore from RS 333 Crore spent on the research and development of cyber security itself, said Khera.
This trend continued since Rs 228.72 Crores was allocated in 2021-22, he said, adding that the accusation of reconnaissance using Pegasus came from 2017.
Referring to media reports that eight phones from the CBI Director Verma and family members were included in the list of suspected devices targeted to lurk using spyware pegasus by an unknown Indian institution as soon as he divested the coveted costs on October 23, 2018, said Khera revealed that the company’s names that prominent from the corporate world and serve bureaucrats at that time, no less than those on Central Investigation Bureau (CBI) also ended.
“Together with Mr.
Alok Verma, two other CBI senior officers, Mr.
Rakesh Asthana and his colleague Ak Sharma also ended.
It also seems to show a direct relationship with controversy raging at Rafale’s agreement because in October, Alok Verma, Director of CBI then met with Prashant Bhushan And Arun Shourie personally handed over complaints relating to Rafale, “he said.
Posing questions to the government, Khera asks if the Indian government or its agent buy pegasus software or not.
Indicates that the government has not been directly rejected using Pegasus, Khera said if the government did not buy this software, which is another government, from which countries peek at Indians.
Whether this budget grant increased for the National Security Council secretariat to buy Pegasus, he asked.
On Sunday, an international media consortium reported that more than 300 cell phone numbers were verified, including two ministers, more than 40 journalists, three opposition leaders and one seat sitting in addition to a number of business people and activists in India could be targeted to hack through spyware.
Reports have been published by wire in collaboration with 16 other international publications including the Washington Post, The Guardian and Le Monde, as a medium of partners for investigations carried out by non-profit organizations of non-profit organizations based in Paris International Amnesty International.
The investigation focused on the leak list of more than 50,000 telephone numbers from all over the world which is believed to be the target of supervision through Pegasus software from the Israeli NSO Group surveillance company.
The government has denied all accusations of opposition in this matter.