Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Thursday alleged that the previous Devendra Fadnavis dispensation misused government machinery to tap the phones of Opposition leaders, and an inquiry has been ordered in this regard.

Speaking to reporters, he said the cyber cell of the state police department has been directed to look into the complaints of phone-tapping and snooping of leaders who were then in the Opposition. He said the government is also trying to find those officers, who had been reportedly sent to Israel to study the snooping software then.