2013 incident of an Indian submarine sinking is being shared as recent.

An Indian submarine exploded and sank in 2013. It is being misrepresented as having occurred shortly after the Odisha train tragedy.

A post claiming an Indian submarine exploded and sank recently owing to sub-standard equipment and technology has gone viral on social media. Many users have shared the post blaming Modi government that the Indian Navy Submarine (INS) Sindhurakshak has been exploded and sank following the train accident in Odisha which happened on 2 June, 2023.

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Fact Check-

A simple reverse image search on Google led us to a report by Economic times published on 2013 August. As per reports “Sindhurakshak, an INS submarine, exploded and sank on August 14, 2013, in Mumbai. The article further informs that it had returned to India from Russia after a ‘$80-million upgrade’.

According to a NDTV report from September 2014, “Explosions on board INS Sindhurakshak in August 2013 – which caused the death of 18 sailors and the vessel to sink in Mumbai harbour – happened because critical Standard Operating Procedures, or SoPs , were violated, an internal inquiry into the incident has revealed”.

In further search we found a Reuters article which was shared on 14 August 2013 and was about the Indian submarine’s accident. The report carried 11 images of the submarines and the viral image was also one of them. The caption along with that image, said, “The Indian Navy’s Sindhurakshak submarine is docked in Visakhapatnam in this February 13, 2006 file photo.”

Furthermore the image is nowhere linked with the devasting Odisha train accident which happened on 2 June, 2023.The INS Sindhurakshak blast occurred in 2013, and the Prime Minister at the time was Manmohan Singh, not Narendra Modi.

Conclusion-

Fact Crescendo found the claim made along with the viral image to be False.

An Indian submarine exploded and sank in 2013. It is being misrepresented as having occurred shortly after the Odisha train tragedy.