While Somanna has not yet reacted to the incident, the woman said he was consoling her after she tried to prostrate before him.
The consignment was delivered in April 2017, bolstering the claim made by the New York Times that India purchased Pegasus that year as part of a major defence deal.
Union parliamentary affairs minister Prahlad Joshi defended the move to grant approval to release the 11 convicted men, saying, “I don’t find anything wrong in it as it is done as a process of the law.”
Can we now expect the RSS chief to back the idea of multi-religious primers for all school students – especially texts which set out the fundamental precepts and beliefs of India’s multiple faiths?