The Indian Navy closely monitors the actions of Chinese naval forces in the Indian Ocean Region - which is widely regarded as the area of responsibility of India.
The warship, a Landing Platform Dock (LPD), was located by a Navy P-8I surveillance aircraft.
The sources also rejected media reports quoting Chinese website sina.com.cn that 11 Chinese warships had entered the East Indian Ocean amid a constitutional crisis in the Maldives.
As Maldives continues to face political crisis, five Chinese naval ships sailed into the eastern Indian Ocean to join six other vessels.
The India-China military stand-off went a step further on Monday with the Chinese warships seen involved in unusual activity in the Indian Ocean
London, Sept 1: A Chinese warship confronted an Indian naval vessel shortly after it left Vietnamese waters in late July in the first such reported encounter between the navy's of the two countries in the
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