Sailor Slapped Officer On INS Sandhayak, Helicopter Used To Break Up Fight

[shah1398]

Sailor Slapped Officer On INS Sandhayak, Helicopter Used To Break Up Fight

The ship was off the Paradip port in Odisha, when the incident took place.

NEW DELHI:
HIGHLIGHTS

1. Four sailors of Indian Navy removed from the survey ship INS Sandhayak
2. Asked to stand in attention, one sailor "deliberately slouched": Source
3. The ship "reported an incident of insubordination involving the sailors"

Four sailors of the Indian Navy have been removed from the survey ship INS Sandhayak after some of them assaulted an officer on board, in an incident off Paradip along the Odisha coast. According to sources, the sailors were pulled up for insubordination after they failed to carry out orders to pull the survey motor boats onboard. The boats are mounted on the INS Sandhayak when they are not in use.

Asked to stand in attention, one of the sailors "deliberately slouched" in an act of defiance, sources said. This is likely to have prompted the officer to try and physically make him stand properly.


Enraged, the sailor hit him. His colleagues joined in, beating up the officer. Security teams were called in and a helicopter was brought in to remove the sailors from the ship. They now face disciplinary action.


In a statement, the Navy said the ship "has reported an incident of insubordination involving young sailors yesterday". The word "mutiny", it said, cannot be used to describe the incident since it did not involve a rebellion by the entire crew of the ship.

"Indian armed forces are known for maintaining a very high standard of discipline... There is no scope for tolerance for such incidents," the statement read.


The INS Sandhayak has resumed operations after the incident. An indigenously built ship, Sandhayak can conduct shallow coastal and deep oceanic survey and collect oceanographic and geophysical data. The ship, commissioned in 2001 is under the Eastern Naval Command.

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/sail...onboard-ins-sandhayak-inquiry-ordered-1668083

 

[shah1398]

March 10, 2017 10:49 IST

The news is few days old but main point of posting this is to ask Indian members that is it some norm/rule out there where such incident are suppose to go public? If not then how even these minor incidents (I would call it minor coz they happen once in a blue moon but come what may, such incidents to occur in almost every military around the world but seldom find its way to media just like that). I would call it irresponsible reporting on part of Indian media as not everything is supposed to be published as such things are quite sensitive in nature and sends out damn wrong message to general public in general and lower ranks in particular.

 

[Michael Corleone]

oh damn!

 

[Sloth 22]

The news is few days old but main point of posting this is to ask Indian members that is it some norm/rule out there where such incident are suppose to go public? If not then how even these minor incidents (I would call it minor coz they happen once in a blue moon but come what may, such incidents to occur in almost every military around the world but seldom find its way to media just like that). I would call it irresponsible reporting on part of Indian media as not everything is supposed to be published as such things are quite sensitive in nature and sends out damn wrong message to general public in general and lower ranks in particular.

You see there's a reason we don't boast about media !

The only thing which matters to them is that they get the gullible masses who won't even be able to differentiate between a mortar and a motor , to watch them!

What more , just weeks ago some leading news paper here showed Gripen as Rafale.

 

[Jlaw]

Unprofessional