New Delhi: A Navy probe has indicted seven officers culpable of omission in the INS Sindhuratna mishap, as per reports on Tuesday.
Reports also said that action has been initiated against seven officers for the mishap.
In February this year INS Sindhurakshak was hit by tragedy when smoke engulfed Russian-made submarine off the Mumbai coast, causing serious illness to seven sailors and leaving two officers dead.
Taking moral responsibility for the incident the Chief of Naval Staff Admiral D K Joshi had resigned from the post of Navy Chief.
It was the first time in the last 15 years that a chief of Navy had to leave office in controversial circumstances. In 1998, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat was sacked by the NDA government. George Fernandes was the Defence Minister then.
Earlier, INS Sindhurakshak had sunk in August, 2013 in which all 18 personnel on board were killed.
INS Sindhurakshak was the second biggest tragedy after the sinking of INS Khukri on the fateful night of December 9, 1971. It sank 40 nautical miles off the coast of Diu after being torpedoed by Pakistani submarine PNS Hangor. The ill-fated ship had 18 officers and 176 sailors on board.
Though INS Khukri was lost in war, INS Sindhurakshak, a frontline submarine, sunk at the naval dockyard in Mumbai on August 14 last year after it was hit by a series of explosions and subsequent fire.
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