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.
After it first made it to the Financial Action Task Force's 'grey list' in 2008, Pakistan's name figured in the subsequent lists in 2012 and 2018. The latest removal of Pakistan from the inglorious list marks a significant development.
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.”