India rubbishes reports of Navy submarine 'forced' to surface

New Delhi, Feb 8 (PTI) Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh
Mehta Sunday rubbished reports that China's warships on
anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden had "forced" an Indian
submarine in the area to surface.

Vehemently denying the Chinese claim, he said, "There is
no such incident that had happened where an Indian Navy
submarine had to surface, that's what I can say."

Earlier, the Navy had said that the vessel "was not" an
Indian one at all.

Dismissing Chinese media reports with regard to the
purported incident, Mehta told reporters after flagging off a
Vintage car rally here that no one in the government has ever
said anything about occurrence of any such incident.

The Indian Navy had earlier rejected claims by the
Chinese media that the two Chinese Destroyers had spotted an
Indian submarine tracking them in the Gulf of Aden and forced
it to surface.

Chinese newspapers and websites had reported a week ago
that their warships sent to fight piracy in waters off Somalia
were stalked by an Indian attack submarine and the two sides
became locked in a tense stand-off for at least half-an-hour.

They also claimed that after rounds of maneuvering during
which both sides tried to test for weaknesses in other's sonar
system, the two Chinese warships managed to force the Indian
submarine to surface. PTI NCB
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