On October 30, 2019, WhatsApp's parent company Facebook, Inc. confirmed that Pegasus, a sophisticated snooping software developed by Israel's NSO Group, was used to target Indian journalists, activists, lawyers and senior government officials.
The journalists and activists are believed to have been targets of surveillance for a two-week period until May, when the Indian national election was held.
[1][2] The snooping scandal came out after WhatsApp filed a case in California's Northern District federal court against the NSO group, alleging the NSO group had developed the software used to infect 1,400 target devices with malware.
[9] They later alleged that their leaders, including general secretary Priyanka Gandhi, are also being targeted by this.
Mohandas Pai also demanded government to probe on the scandal and to come out with a report before the public.