The former Commanding Officer of INS Viraat, the aircraft carrier that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi allegedly used as a personal taxi service, has categorically denied the allegations made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to Vice Admiral Vinod Pasricha, who commanded the Viraat in December, 1987, when late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi embarked the aircraft carrier, has denied reports that friends of the Gandhis and his Italian mother-in-law were with him on the warship.