Netaji’s kin aware of missing files but still refuse to buy into crash theory

Some of the crucial intelligence documents on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s mysterious disappearance since August 1945 may have gone missing, claim members of Netaji’s family, who are now analyzing the 64 files on Netaji recently declassified by the West Bengal Government.

Says Sarat Chandra Bose’s grandson, Abhijit Ray, “There are vital documents related to Netaji’s radio broadcasts from Nanking  in 1948 which are missing. In fact, a German transmitter interception was there but it is missing now. These are IB documents pointing to Netaji being alive and active post-1945 and it is a criminal offence to destroy them”.

In fact, Netaji’s <g data-gr-id="23">grand nephew</g> Chandra Kumar <g data-gr-id="29">Bose however</g> said that copies of the IB files—even if missing in the Kolkata files – should be  in New Delhi. In fact, a letter by an I&B official, Chow <g data-gr-id="24">Hsang</g> Kuang written to Netaji’s nephew Amiya Nath Bose says that he believes that Netaji was alive and active in China in 1948, years after his official year of death: 1945. “This letter is in our possession, thanks to the declassification of the West Bengal IB and Police files.

Besides, Suresh Chandra Bose’s dissent note with regard to the Shahnawaz Committee’s findings(1956) that Netaji died in the 1945 Taihoku air crash is also available”, Chandra Kumar Bose told Millennium Post.

The family will also demand during its meeting with the Indian PM Narendra Modi in October that the Justice Mukherjee Commission’s report(2006) on Netaji’s disappearance be tabled in the Parliament.

“We suspect that Justice Mukherjee was not given papers from all the 64 files that we see today. He still concluded after his visit to the crash site that Netaji did not die in the 1945 air crash in Taiwan.

“We will also demand declassification of all central and state government papers on Netaji and the tabling of these documents in Parliament”, added Chandra Bose.