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Phone nos of ministers, journos in India could have been hacked: Report

Indian government dismisses allegations of any kind of surveillance on its part on specific people.

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Media reports of photo surveillance on Indian citizens likely to be raised in Parliament. (File photo)

Press Trust of India New Delhi
More than 300 verified mobile phone numbers, including of two serving ministers, over 40 journalists, three opposition leaders and one sitting judge besides scores of business persons and activists in India could have been targeted for hacking through an Israeli spyware sold only to government agencies, an international media consortium reported on Sunday.

The government, however, dismissed allegations of any kind of surveillance on its part on specific people, saying it "has no concrete basis or truth associated with it whatsoever".

Asserting that "India is a robust democracy that is committed to ensuring the right to privacy to all its citizens as

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