INS Prahar (K98) explained

INS Prahar (Assault)^[1] was a of the Indian Navy.^[2]

Operations

In October 1999, she assisted the IGCS Tarabai to chase and capture a Panamanian-registered Japanese cargo ship carrying aluminum ingots, MV Alondra Rainbow, that had been hijacked by pirates off Indonesia. The operation took place off the coast of Kochi.^[3]

Collision

On 21 April 2006 INS Prahar collided with the container ship MV Rajiv Gandhi, and sank off the coast of Goa. No one was injured in the accident. The commanding officer of the ship, Lieutenant Commander Yogesh Tripathi was found guilty of negligence by an Indian Navy court-martial, and dismissed from service.^[4]

References

1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0
2. Web site: Surface Ships of Indian Navy . 6 August 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090619084849/http://indiannavy.nic.in/corvettes_veer.htm . 19 June 2009 . dead .
3. Web site: Alondra Rainbow revisited, A Study of related issues in the light of the recent judgment of Mumbai High Court . 2012-05-03 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20101128110221/http://southasiaanalysis.org/papers14/paper1379.html . 28 November 2010 .
4. Web site: INS Prahar mishap: Captain found guilty of navigational error, sacked . The Indian Express.