NEW DELHI: Three senior Navy officersface a general court
martial
(
GCM
) for their alleged negligence that led to a major accident of front-line warship
INS Betwa at the Mumbai naval dockyard, which killed two sailors and injured 14 others, in December 2016.
The GCM against the Captain (equivalent to an Army Colonel) of the 3,850-tonne guided-missile
frigate
INS Betwa and two Commanders (Lt-Cols), one from the engineering branch and other from the dockyard, began last Friday after the board of inquiry (BoI) found them prima facie guilty.
The Brahmaputra-class frigate had "slipped from her dock blocks", tilted and then crashed flat on her left (port) side while being undocked during a maintenance refit on December 5, 2016. The warship was heavily damaged when it tipped over, with at least 25% flooding in its compartments, in the unprecedented mishap, as was earlier reported by TOI.
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