The enigmatic near-infrared transient VVV-WIT-06 underwent a large amplitude eruption of unclear origin in July 2013 .
Based on its lightcurve properties and late-time post-outburst spectra various possibilities have been proposed in the literature for the origin of the object viz .
a Type I supernova , a classical nova ( CN ) and a violent stellar merger event .
We show that out of these possibilities , an origin in a CN outburst convincingly explains the observed properties of VVV-WIT-06 .
We estimate that the absolute K band magnitude of the nova at maximum was M _ { k } = -8.2 \pm 0.5 , its distance d = 13.35 \pm 2.18 Kpc and the extinction A _ { v } = 15.0 \pm 0.55 magnitudes .