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There is no official & credible evidence to validate the viral story about MARCOS officer Abhishek Chakraborty and ‘Operation Black Cobra.’

No credible evidence supports claims of a 2016 secret mission or a Navy officer named Abhishek Chakraborty receiving the Vir Chakra, fact-checkers confirmed.

Summary by factly.in
Social media is abuzz (here, here, and here) with a story of an Indian Navy officer named Abhishek Chakraborty, who allegedly participated in a 2016 mission named ‘Operation Black Cobra,’ a secret mission, whose objective was to destroy underwater sensors inside Pakistan’s Gwadar port. The viral social media posts claim that he lost his life after successfully completing the mission due to a lack of Oxygen and became a martyr. The story further …

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factly.in broke the news in on Thursday, December 11, 2025.
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