What The IT Ministry Has Said
“The allegations regarding government surveillance on specific people has no concrete basis or truth associated with it whatsoever,” the government said in its response to the media houses investigating the matter, on Saturday, 17 July, a day before the reports appeared in the news.
Commenting on the reportage, MeitY further stated, “Considering the fact that answers to the queries posed have already been in public domain for a long time, it also indicates poorly conducted research and lack of due diligence by the esteemed media organisations involved.”
While the IT Ministry had not repudiated its employment of the spyware at the time, it had said, “The government operates strictly as per provisions of law and laid down protocols. There are adequate safeguards to ensure that no innocent citizen is harassed or his privacy breached.”
It had further claimed that the allegations levelled were ‘an attempt to malign the government‘.
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