- The Supreme Court stayed further dismantling of the decommissioned aircraft carrier INS Viraat. The order comes on a plea filed by a firm that had proposed to turn the vessel into a museum.
- Envitech Marine Consultants Pvt. Ltd had approached the apex court after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had turned down its proposal to convert the decommissioned aircraft carrier into a museum.
- INS Viraat was beached on September 28 at Alang, after numerous attempts to convert the carrier into a museum failed.
- Commissioned in the British Navy in 1959 as HMS Hermes, INS Viraat was inducted into the Indian Navy in 1986-87.
- In a last-ditch bid, a private company, Envitech Marine Consultants Pvt Ltd, offered to buy INS Viraat from the Shree Ram Group and convert it into a museum.