Amid opposition parties’ repeated protests in Parliament pertaining to the Pegasus spyware case and their demand for a debate on the issue, news portal The Wire on Wednesday reported that former Supreme Court judge Arun Mishra’s old mobile number was on the list of the NSO Group’s potential Pegasus surveillance targets.

Earlier, The Wire had reported that in the list of 300 Indian numbers verified by the Pegasus Project, the number of a sitting judge was present. After speaking to the former judge — who now heads the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) — on the record today, The Wire report confirmed that the judge was Arun Mishra.