The Pegasus leaked list contains numbers of former CBI Director Alok Verma and his family, and of Rakesh Asthana, against whom the CBI had filed a case, The Wire reported.

Eight of those phones were forensically confirmed by Amnesty International's tech lab to have been successfully compromised by the military grade spyware that its Israeli vendor, NSO Group, says it sells only to "vetted governments". Two other phones showed signs of targeting.