Using Pegasus for security not wrong, says SC

The government possessing spyware for security purposes is not wrong, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.

- Suchitra Kalyan Mohanty @ New Delhi

However, allegations of it being used against private individuals can be looked at, it added.

"What's wrong if a country is using spyware? To have spyware is not wrong... against whom you are using it is the question. You can't sacrifice the security of the nation," a bench of justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said.