Not able to switch to parent page if child page is self closing in Karate

Question

I am stucked with following flow in Karate feature testcase

1. Open parent page
2. Click on hyperlink which opens another page
3. Switch to new page
4. Click on hyperlink which causes it to self close
5. Try to switch back to prior page

Somehow I am getting timeout exception with no reply.

Please let me know if I need to submit small piece of code for this.