The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a plea challenging the setting up of a commission of inquiry by the West Bengal government to probe into the Pegasus snooping allegations on December 17.

The matter was mentioned on December 16 before a bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana by the lawyer appearing for the petitioner NGO who submitted that the commission was going ahead with the probe despite the fact that the top court has constituted an expert committee in the case. He said the state government had assured the top court that it would not proceed with the probe.