The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Trinamool Congress MLA Mohua Moitra's petition challenging the Centre's decision to create a Social Media Communication Hub (SMCH) on the ground that it was an attempt to snoop on citizens' social media activities in violation of their right to privacy. The government had claimed that the move would keep it abreast of citizens' view on various programmes and help understand their perception on various schemes. It had claimed that through SMCH, it would attempt to inculcate nationalist feelings among citizens and be able to counter campaigns intended to harm India's image globally. Moitra's counsel Mohd Nizam Pasha told a vacation bench of Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Indu Malhotra that the proposal to set up SMCH would become a tool in the hands of private agencies to help the government launch surveillance on citizens' activities on social media platforms in violation of right to privacy, which is a part of right to life. Pasha requested an early hearing and said the government was about to start the tender process. The SC said it would hear Moitra's PIL after two weeks when the court reopens after a summer break. The tender document says the successful bidder will be required "to collect digital media chatter from all core social media platforms as well as digital platforms like news, blogs and forums". Moitra accused the government of attempting to invade the privacy of citizens by keeping a watch on their activities online to create a 360 degree profile of persons "who are creating a buzz on social media". She said the move violated right to life guaranteed by the Constitution and other fundamental rights of citizens. She quoted the tender document, which said, "The platform should also support easy management of controversial logs with each individual with capabilities to merge it across channels to help facilitate creating a 360 degree view of the people who are creating a buzz across various topics." She said it was nothing but snooping and violating individual's right to free speech and expression.