The four sailors were allegedly disobeying direct orders, including the lowering of boats into the waters from the ship for carrying out different tasks, as well as reporting late for duties.
New Delhi, March 9: Four sailors allegedly disobeyed their senior’s order and were airlifted from the vessel on Thursday. In an unprecedented incident, the four of the young sailors displayed indiscipline and disobeyed their seniors’ orders which led to a scuffle and exchanging a few blows with officers on board the warship on the high seas.
The Navy, on its part, said the “incident of insubordination” had been reported from INS Sandhayak while it was on a routine deployment off Paradip in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.
“The Indian armed forces are known for maintaining very high standards of discipline. An inquiry has been ordered into the incident because there is no scope for tolerance for such incidents,” said an officer.
“The ship was directed to disembark the personnel involved in the incident to facilitate the progress of investigation before it resumed its assigned task,” he added.
The four sailors were allegedly disobeying direct orders, including the lowering of boats into the waters from the ship for carrying out different tasks, as well as reporting late for duties. When they were pulled up by officers, they apparently got into an argument and there was a scuffle on board the ship.