Well, if Kashmir is an integral part of India and partly occupied by your Pakistani neighbor, according to New Delhi that is, why on earth is India not condemning a behavior that is similar to what Pakistan has done to you? I do believe that any other Indian leader would have acted differently on this issue.
There are things India prioritises with Russia past Putin's Tsarism.
Do I (as an individual) like that or prefer it that way? Nope....I despise Putin's guts and Tsarism's guts (as they portend to the power realm especially). I personally wish India was in a different situation to make a better call on this. But we dont operate on wishes, we operate on reality.
I see the larger reality in how countries form relationships and the reasons why.... it is grey area devoid of exacting principle.
There is some exercise of (asserted) morality....but its coloured heavily by hypocrisy whenever it does arise.
Past that its largely weighted by a transactional nature.....by far.
You can give me ANY country (the larger the better)....and I will show you the big list proving this to be so.
This is not a Modi/BJP thing here.....Manmohan Singh or any Indian PM's administration would have done the exact same thing and abstained.
Feel free to check with Joe (or other Indians you want to) on the coffee thread if you would like to on it (and I will like to join that maybe if you do)....since that will get to off-topic stuff.
It was the prior administrations that built up the relationship with Russia, overlooking all manner of faults in them (as they overlooked all manner of faults within us).
Just like fault overlooking is done in relationship building (for the purposes you build that relationship in first place).
Just the same like we did with the US.....the only country to send a CBG to threaten us while we hosted millions of refugees (including many Muslims) from a neighbour's atrocities.....and the larger Muslim world staying extremely silent (or even materially supportive of the perpetrator).
Have we not looked past their faults (in the Muslim world...and the US) too in that episode?....and built relationships past it since?
He who is without sin, please by all means.....cast the first stone (in foreign policy).
