The arrests were made on October 29, Saturday night after the Telangana high court had set aside a lower court's order that had dismissed the case citing lack of evidence.
The state's Additional Advocate General told this to the Telangana high court during arguments on a petition filed by the BJP seeking a CBI probe into the TRS MLA-poaching case.
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.”