Those old files were destroyed. How the Indian Navy destroyed the Ghazi. One of the oldest living Chakra awardees and still fit at 96, he can take on any teenager in swimming. Various causes of her sinking were presumed, but the cause most widely believed and officially recorded was that Ghazi was destroyed and sunk by the depth charge fired at it by INS Rajput commanded by Lieutenant Commander Inder Singh Malik. Thus, it was the accidental detonation of its own mines that destroyed the Ghazi and not INS Rajput‘s depth charges. PNS Ghazi came in search of INS Vikrant but was baffled by INS Rajput and torpedoes hit the Ghazi and it sunk. As the lights ashore were blacked out, PNS Ghazi may have misjudged her position and doubled back into her own minefield around midnight; about 10-15 minutes before the INS Rajput depth charging. However, India credits the sinking of PNS Ghazi to its own naval destroyer INS Rajput. The Indian and and Pakistan quote different reasons for sinking of PNS Ghazi. As the lights ashore were blacked out, PNS Ghazi may have misjudged her position and doubled back into her own minefield around midnight; about 10-15 minutes before the INS Rajput depth charging. In later days, India claimed that the cruiser INS Rajput posed as Vikrant to lure Ghazi out into the open – and sunk it with depth charges. As the lights ashore were blacked out, PNS Ghazi may have misjudged her position and doubled back into her own minefield around midnight; about 10-15 minutes before the INS Rajput depth charging. Finally on November 14, 1971, PNS Ghazi secretly sailed 3,000 miles (over 4,800km) from the Arabian Sea to Bay of Bengal in a bid to locate and destroy INS Vikrant. He claimed that he was unable to obtain any old files regarding PNS Ghazi sinking. The Indian and and Pakistan quote different reasons for sinking of PNS Ghazi. While Pakistani military maintains that PNS Ghazi sank due to A. accidental explosions within the vehicle and/or B. detonation of its own mines that it placed along the Visakhapatnam coast. The film, The Ghazi Attack features the story of men aboard S21 who managed to survive underwater for 18 days. Balram Naidu, director of Livein Adventures, quoted to Yo Vizag, “PNS Ghazi has been located near the entrance of the city’s port, at a depth of 28m from the sea surface. And just like PNS Ghazi, this story of Indian Navy’s courage and valour never surfaced in the pages of history. And the word went around that it was PNS Ghazi that exploded and sank. But Pakistan contests this version for a more honourable explanation – Ghazi was sunk by one of its own mines, as it sought to make the waters in front of the Eastern Naval Command at Vishakapatnam unpassable. (Representational image) Sinking of PNS Ghazi in the Indo-Pak submarine warfare 1971, remains a haunted mystery! “The submarine GHAZI was despatched to the Visakhapatnam Naval Base in the Bay of Bengal.