New Delhi, Jan. 30: A commodore and five other officers have been censured and a commanding officer is to face a court martial after the navy approved the punishments recommended by an investigation into the fire in a submarine last year.

Two officers were killed in the incident in the INS Sindhuratna off Mumbai on February 26, 2014. It led to the resignation of then navy chief Admiral D.K. Joshi.

Sources in the navy said the commanding officer of the submarine, Commander Sandeep Sinha, would have another chance to restate his case in the court martial.

The Commodore Commanding, S.R. Kapoor, was given a 'Letter of Severe Displeasure'. He was in the 26-year-old Sindhuratna that was being put through trials after a refit. A navy commodore is equivalent to an army brigadier.

A board of inquiry (BOI) had in November found the officers guilty of 'various acts of omission and commission'.

'The BOI has found seven officers culpable of various acts of omissions and commissions. Disciplinary action has been initiated at the Western Naval Command headquarters,' defence minister Manohar Parrikar had told the Rajya Sabha in November.

The two officers killed in the fire, Lt Commander Kapish Muwal and Lt Manoranjan Kumar, were given gallantry awards posthumously. The probe pinned the cause of the fire on 'human error'.

The inquiry, headed by Rear Admiral Bokhare, investigated not only what went on inside the sub but also what went into it during its refit and checks before it went out to sea.

<-5.000>The navy is yet to complete its probe into the sinking of another sub, the INS Sindhurakshak, in which 18 crew members died on August 14, 2013.