Indian army's chief General Bipin Rawat claimed the neighboring giant's decision of refraining from intervening in the ongoing political crisis of Maldives was "well thought out."
The army chief was however quick to add that time would tell whether it was the right move on India's end.
Rawat had answered questions relating to the political crisis in Maldives that deepened after the island nation's head of state declared an initial 15-day state of emergency.
President Abdulla Yameen's move for declaring emergency came as his last ditch effort to thwart Maldives Supreme Court's order on February 1 citing the immediate release of nine arbitrarily detained prisoners which includes the former president Mohamed Nasheed.
Amid the growing tension the former head of state, Nasheed who lives in exile after flying abroad seeking medical attention, had requested assistance from India to dispatch envoys with "physical military presences."
This had been described by the ruling party as well as the government a direct invitation for a foreign state to intervene in the sovereignty of Maldives, which was reciprocated with lambastes aimed at the ex-president.
According to the Indian army chief the country's diplomats and "political entity" had looked into the matter in Maldives and did what they thought "was best for them."
It has also been reported that the Indian military on February had ordered aerial and naval units to go an alert for a possible deployment in Maldives - which came days after the emergency proclamation.
However both Maldives and its Asian ally China had warned against foreign interference in the island nation's political matters.
Under president Abdulla Yameen's regime Maldives have seemingly drifted from its union with the South-Asian juggernaut and is aligned close to Beijing.
