The row has put Union president Moosa Harraj under scrutiny, with senior lawyer J Sai Deepak alleging mismanagement and Pakistan insisting India backed out.

India has initiated the procurement of more Israeli Heron MK-II drones under emergency provisions invoked after Operation Sindoor, according to sources in the Israeli defence industry.

On December 8, 1989, Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was kidnapped on her way back home from a hospital in Srinagar. She was kidnapped by terrorists affiliated with the JKLF.