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A public interest litigation petition has been filed before the Bombay High Court alleging that the object behind sending a delegation of senior officials from the Maharashtra Director General of Information & Public Relations (DGIPR) to Israel for a study tour in 2019 was to “acquire spying software like Pegasus.”