Three months after the Supreme Court junked a PIL against scrapping of the country's first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, the process of breaking the iconic naval vessel has begun. (Photo: PTI)
The duo of INS Vikrant and INS Virat in 1990s. (Photo: Twitter)
In January 2014, during the hearing of a public interest litigation (PIL) that opposed the plan to scrap the ship, the defence ministry had told the Bombay high court that it had completed its operational life. (Photo: Twitter)
The Majestic-class aircraft carrier, purchased from Britain in 1957, played a key role in enforcing the naval blockade of East Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 which culminated in creation of Bangladesh. (Photo: Twitter)
"We began the process of breaking INS Vikrant yesterday (Thursday) and it will take at least seven to eight months to complete the job," Abdul Zaka of ship breaking company IB Commercial (IBC), which had won the bid for the decommissioned ship for
A deserted view of the decommissioned warship, INS Vikrant which is being wrecked at Darukhana ship breaking yard in Mumbai on Friday. (Photo: PTI)
Decommissioned warship, INS Vikrant being wrecked at Darukhana ship breaking yard in Mumbai on Friday. (Photo: PTI)