A hundred secret files, which could throw some light on the controversy over the disappearance or death of Subhash Chandra Bose, were made public by prime minister Narendra Modi on Netaji's 119th birth anniversary. The files comprise over 16,600 pages of historic documents, ranging from those of the British Raj to as late as 2007, an official said, after the ceremony at the National Archives of India (NAI) in which the PM declassified the secret papers.
Also present were members of the Bose family and Union ministers Mahesh Sharma and Babul Supriyo. In addition to the 100 files, the NAI plans to release digital copies of a set of 25 declassified files on Bose in the public domain every month. NAI also opened a dedicated website to store all the declassified files.
While two commissions of inquiry had concluded that Netaji had died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, a third probe panel, headed by Justice MK Mukherjee, had contested it and suggested that Bose was alive after that. The controversy has also split members of the Bose family. The first lot of 33 files were declassified by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and handed over to the NAI on December 4 last year.
Chandra Kumar Bose, spokesperson of the Bose family said, “We feel that certain important files were destroyed during the Congress regime in order to hide the truth. Government should take steps to ensure the release of files lying in Russia, Germany, UK, the US.“
Netaji's daughter Anita Bose Pfaff, who lives in Germany, believes that her father had died in the Taipei plane crash.
Also present were members of the Bose family and Union ministers Mahesh Sharma and Babul Supriyo. In addition to the 100 files, the NAI plans to release digital copies of a set of 25 declassified files on Bose in the public domain every month. NAI also opened a dedicated website to store all the declassified files.
While two commissions of inquiry had concluded that Netaji had died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, a third probe panel, headed by Justice MK Mukherjee, had contested it and suggested that Bose was alive after that. The controversy has also split members of the Bose family. The first lot of 33 files were declassified by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and handed over to the NAI on December 4 last year.
Chandra Kumar Bose, spokesperson of the Bose family said, “We feel that certain important files were destroyed during the Congress regime in order to hide the truth. Government should take steps to ensure the release of files lying in Russia, Germany, UK, the US.“
Netaji's daughter Anita Bose Pfaff, who lives in Germany, believes that her father had died in the Taipei plane crash.
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