Setting up a parallel commission was a œmalafide exercise: BJP

Jaitley said he state commission which is already investigating the issue has unlimited jurisdiction and it should continue to function and come out with its report.

It was alleged that illegal surveillance was carried out on a young woman architect in Gujarat in 2009 at the behest of Modi and Amit Shah who was the Home Minister at that time.

A controversy had broken out last week when senior ministers Kapil Sibal (Law) and Sushilkumar Shinde (Home) told the media that a judge would be named into the surveillance, which was dubbed as ‘snoopgate', before May 16 when the counting of votes in the Lok Sabha elections is taken up.

The announcement came under severe attack from BJP which slammed the Congress-led UPA alleging it was practising vendetta out of desperation of defeat in the elections.