New Delhi: The Supreme Court will pronounce judgement on Pegasus snoopgate scandal on Wednesday.

The Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V.Ramana has reserved the order on September 13, indicating that Court-monitored technical committee to probe the matter.

In last month, CJI told the petitioner’s counsel that some of the members of the proposed expert committee expressed unwillingness to be part of the same, thus constitution of the committee getting delayed he said.

The batch of petitions was heard by Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli.

Israel based spyware firm NSO is best known for its Pegasus spyware, which it claims is sold only to “vetted governments” and not to private entities, though the company does not reveal which governments it sells the controversial product, reported Bar and Bench.

While hearing the court has issued notice to the Centre. The Centre has submitted that it was willing to give details regarding the controversy to an expert committee, but not make it public before the Court for fear of national security implications.

While doing so, it had questioned the Central government as to why a detailed affidavit could not be filed in response to the petitions filed before the Court.

The Court had eventually reserved its order saying that it will pass orders without the Centre's affidavit.

Pegasus software had used against Indian journalists, activists, lawyers, officials, a former Supreme Court judge and others. The court has expressed its dissatisfaction against the Centre for not divulging the details of the matter. The Union government has cited national security issues while filing objections to the petitions.