No the 22000 claim is not contested nor completely checked by DM MP or IN. In fact India has not officially asked The Australian newspaper about it.
Reason being the proprietary part of the work by India comes under the "top secret" bracket and is not shared with everyone including DCNS folks above a particular grade and strategic involvement people. So tracing a internal audit of those dox access is much easier to cross check bcz as far as i know as per source the people involved in this work has not left either DCNS nor the from Indian side folks involved in this project.
So it was much easier to rule that part out...
You are correct but there are folks who made in news media comments about scorpenes being dud, we should scrap scorpene project to even going for Russian sub right now itself .. The way whole thing was sounded made it clear that instead of understanding whats going on, the gullible masses were taken on a ride to paint a picture against what is the reality..
You know folks said that our sailors inside submarines wont have confidence to safely carry out mission knowing everything is compromised .. Its as if we are playing with their lives and sending them to suicide missions.
You should check Shiv Aroor comments or even NDTV's Vishu Som's comments about everything leaked and compromised..
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to some extent initially Manu Pubby also joined and finally backed off.. same like Jugal R Purohit..
Thats why i said sustained campaign.. none of them even understand whats going on. but in the name of Breaking news and TRP , they created a mood where the whole country folks thought its a gone case really