Prime Minister Narendra Modi had struck a deal with Italy which the government rebutted the allegations on AgustaWestland case and said the central issue was corruption and any other effort to divert from it was "misleading".
Also, it was termed attempts to link NSA Ajit Doval and Principal Secretary to PM Nripendra Mishra to one of the accused as "totally unjustified assertion and indicative of malicious intent". "Those who cannot see Prime Minister succeed even hint at him cutting a deal. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
However, the government said in the late mid statement that “Prime Minister Modi did not cut any deal of any sort,"
It added that a few have even sought to link one of the accused with Doval and Mishra. "This is a totally baseless assertion, devoid of reason and logic, and indicative of malicious intent. In reality, there is no such connection," it said. .