01-29-2006, 06:07 PM
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story....t_id=83929
<b>Netaji missing from crash death register</b>
Mukherjee Judge cites evidence to back claim he didnât die in Formosa
Add one more to the swirl of conspiracy theories around Netaji Subhas Chandra Boseâs disappearance.
Itâs now with the Home Ministry as Exhibit Number 304. Written in Japanese, itâs a 60-year-old âdeath registerâ issued by the local municipality in Taihoku 10 days after the August 17, 1945 aircrash in which Netaji is said to have been killed. The death register does not have Netajiâs name. Neither does it mention the name of the pilot or the co-pilot.
This forms the key evidence behind the conclusion of the Justice Manoj Kumar Mukherjee commissionâas first reported in The Indian Express on November 13âthat Netaji did not die in the plane crash.
âThe Commissionâs report indeed cites this evidence. I cannot comment on whether there is any further scope of inquiryâ, Mukherjee told The Indian Express.
The evidence he is referring toâhe submitted his report last monthâcontradicts the official Indian line and the finding of the previous two commissions, Shah Nawaz Committee (1956) and the Khosla Commission (1972), which concluded that Netaji had died in the plane crash.
The death register is a 25-page list of 273 personsâJapanese, Chinese and Britishâcremated and buried under the Taihoku municipality from August 17, 1945 to August 27, 1945.
The Mukherjee Commission had asked for death records of that period from the Taipei City Government in January, 2005.
The death register reached the commission after its visit to Taipei and Bangkok on January 26 and 27 this year. Translator Sandeep Kumar Settâs letter to the commission (Exhibit 305) reads: âThere is no entry in the name of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose/Chandra Bose, Pilot Takizawa, Co-Pilot Aoyagi and General Shidei in the above documents of cremationâ.
Another letter which Justice Mukherjee has cited in his report as evidence against the crash theory is one from the CIA, archived at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Maryland.
The letter, which reached the Mukherjee Commission via the MEA on Jan 27, 2005, is on the letterhead of the Department of State and is dated June 28, 1946. It says: âA search of the files in the Intelligence Division reveals that there is no direct evidence that Subhas Chandra Bose was killed in an airplane crash at Taihoko, Formosa, despite the public statement of the Japanese to that effectâ. This document was informally sent by the Friends of India Society in the US after it was declassified in 1986 but a certified copy reached the Commission only in January 2005.
<b>Netaji missing from crash death register</b>
Mukherjee Judge cites evidence to back claim he didnât die in Formosa
Add one more to the swirl of conspiracy theories around Netaji Subhas Chandra Boseâs disappearance.
Itâs now with the Home Ministry as Exhibit Number 304. Written in Japanese, itâs a 60-year-old âdeath registerâ issued by the local municipality in Taihoku 10 days after the August 17, 1945 aircrash in which Netaji is said to have been killed. The death register does not have Netajiâs name. Neither does it mention the name of the pilot or the co-pilot.
This forms the key evidence behind the conclusion of the Justice Manoj Kumar Mukherjee commissionâas first reported in The Indian Express on November 13âthat Netaji did not die in the plane crash.
âThe Commissionâs report indeed cites this evidence. I cannot comment on whether there is any further scope of inquiryâ, Mukherjee told The Indian Express.
The evidence he is referring toâhe submitted his report last monthâcontradicts the official Indian line and the finding of the previous two commissions, Shah Nawaz Committee (1956) and the Khosla Commission (1972), which concluded that Netaji had died in the plane crash.
The death register is a 25-page list of 273 personsâJapanese, Chinese and Britishâcremated and buried under the Taihoku municipality from August 17, 1945 to August 27, 1945.
The Mukherjee Commission had asked for death records of that period from the Taipei City Government in January, 2005.
The death register reached the commission after its visit to Taipei and Bangkok on January 26 and 27 this year. Translator Sandeep Kumar Settâs letter to the commission (Exhibit 305) reads: âThere is no entry in the name of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose/Chandra Bose, Pilot Takizawa, Co-Pilot Aoyagi and General Shidei in the above documents of cremationâ.
Another letter which Justice Mukherjee has cited in his report as evidence against the crash theory is one from the CIA, archived at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Maryland.
The letter, which reached the Mukherjee Commission via the MEA on Jan 27, 2005, is on the letterhead of the Department of State and is dated June 28, 1946. It says: âA search of the files in the Intelligence Division reveals that there is no direct evidence that Subhas Chandra Bose was killed in an airplane crash at Taihoko, Formosa, despite the public statement of the Japanese to that effectâ. This document was informally sent by the Friends of India Society in the US after it was declassified in 1986 but a certified copy reached the Commission only in January 2005.
