SC allows shifting of INS Vikrant from Mumbai Naval dockyard

Earlier, the Defence ministry has moved the court seeking modification of the May 5 order on the ground that the aircraft carrier has been incurring huge cost in its repairs and maintenance, besides occupying crucial berth for other serving vessels at the Naval dockyard at Mumbai.  The court, however, had said it would not modify the order and may consider the plea to shift the ship out of dockyard.

The aircraft career was built in England well before the end of World War-II and the Indian Navy had bought it in 1957 and was decommissioned in 1997.

INS Vikrant had played a key role during the Bangladesh liberation war.

Earlier, an apex court bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan, since retired, had ordered status quo on dismantling of the ship and sought responses from the Defence Ministry and others.