A CJI-led bench was informed on Thursday by a panel the Supreme Court established to look into the Pegasus snooping issue that it had not discovered any concrete evidence that the spyware was present in the 29 mobile phones it had examined.

Forensic analysis revealed that five phones were found to be affected by some malware, but the panel said it was unclear if it was Pegasus.

CJI NV Ramana highlighted that the government was uncooperative with the committee and repeated its prior position of not disclosing whether it used Pegasus for spying on citizens while taking into account the panel's sealed report.

The committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge RV Raveendran, was constituted to investigate the alleged misuse of the Pegasus spyware to spy on journalists, politicians and activists. It had submitted its final report earlier in July.