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This is an archive article published on December 26, 1998

Bengal House seeks fresh probe into Netaji mystery

CALCUTTA, DEC 25: The West Bengal Assembly yesterday demanded that the Centre should institute a fresh inquiry commission to ``remove the...

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CALCUTTA, DEC 25: The West Bengal Assembly yesterday demanded that the Centre should institute a fresh inquiry commission to “remove the mystery regarding the whereabouts of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.”

A non-official motion moved by ten members from the Opposition and the ruling coalition yesterday, expressed serious concerns over the fact that “the people and scholars of India are still in dark about the mysterious disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose during the Second World War.”

The motion, which was carried, pointed out that “the judicial pronouncements of the Supreme Court and High Court in India created more suspicions in the minds of people… regarding Netaji’s alleged death in the plane crash….”

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The motion said that through the state government, the House demands that the Government of India should make necessary arrangements for availability of records and documents in and outside the country so that the scholars and the people could have access to them, besides instituting afresh inquiry into Netaji’s disappearance.

Pointing out with a sense of distress, the motion said “the records and documents in different countries of Europe, America, Far East and South-East Asia… are not made available to the people and scholars of India.”

The House opined that Bose’s death on “an alleged plane crash has not been proved beyond doubt; and, the reports of the two Commissions of Inquiry set up by the Government of India are not believed by the people and scholars of India.”

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