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Captain of INS Sindhuratna to face court martial

January 31, 2015DefenceOmkar Sawant

Sandeep Sinha – Captain Commander of INS Sindhuratna will face a general court martial (GCM) for last February’s mishap on board the submarine, which killed two officers, injured several sailors and triggered Admiral D K Joshi’s resignation as Navy chief.

INS Sindhuratna

INS Sindhuratna

Six other officers have been awarded “severe displeasure” – a black mark in their records preventing any promotion, foreign posting, course and the like for them for two years.

What is ‘Sindhuratna tragedy’?

  1. INS Sindhuratna is a diesel-electric submarine of the Indian Navy
  2. On 26 February 2014 smoke was detected on INS Sindhuratna off Mumbai coast
  3. On-board 4-5 sailors were airlifted to a Mumbai hospital after they fell unconscious from suffocation.
  4. The senior-most submarine officer of the Western Naval Command was on board.
  5. 2 people were killed while 7 were injured.
  6. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
  7. As per reports, smoke had engulfed compartment No. 3 in the sailors’ accommodation area when the submarine was underwater during a training mission, leading to deaths and injuries.
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