India's biggest cover-up

by Anuj Dhar

  [12]. 'Bengali lobby' & Netaji probe, The Pioneer, 28 March 1999.

  [13]. Historians dismiss Netaji death probe, Indian Express, 29 March 1999.

  [14]. Nilanjana Bose, Mukherjee Commission yet to conclude investigations, NDTV, 22 August 2001.

  [15]. All quotations taken from the record of Lakshmi Sehgal’s deposition before Mukherjee Commission.

  [16]. Deepak Sharma, MHA ready with Netaji expose, The Pioneer, 23 January 2001.

  [17]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume IIA, p. 187.

  [18]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume IIB, p. 250.

  [19]. Ibid, p. 254.

  [20]. Ibid.

  [21]. Ibid.

  [22]. Ibid, p. 259.

  [23]. Funds blow to Netaji probe panel’s Taiwan tour, The Times of India, 17 April 2004.

  [24]. MEA not funding Netaji panel’s proposed Taiwan visit, OutlookIndia.com, 16 April 2004.

  [25]. Mukherjee ready to place documents in face of non-cooperation, HindustanTimes.com, 15 October 2004.

  [26]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume IIB, p. 315.

  [27]. Ibid, p. 319.

  [28]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume I, pp 59-60.

  [29]. Ibid, p. 74.

  [30]. Ibid, p. 75.

  [31]. Udayan Namboodiri, Is Congress scared of KGB files? The Pioneer, 7 February 2005.

  [32]. Republic cannot kill its own children: Supreme Court, NDTV, 14 January 2011, accessed from http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/republic-cannot-kill-its-own-children-supreme-court-79290.

  [33]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume IIB, p. 322.

  [34]. Ibid, p. 328.

  [35]. Udayan Namboodiri, Netaji’s last days: An enigma locked in Lubyanka, The Pioneer, 2 October 2005, Moscow.

  [36]. Udayan Namboodiri, KGB is dead but long lives its guile, The Pioneer, 25 September 2005.

  [37]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume IIB, p. 328.

  [38]. Record of Prof Boris Sokolov’s examination before Mukherjee Commission.

  [39]. Record of Prof EN Komorov’s examination before Mukherjee Commission on 20 September 2005.

  [40]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume IIB, p. 328.

  {41]. Udayan Namboodiri, Netaji’s last days: An enigma locked in Lubyanka, The Pioneer, 2 October 2005, Moscow.

  [42]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume I, pp 106-107.

  [43]. Ibid, p. 53.

  [44]. Khosla Commission exhibit No 23 A obtained under RTI.

  [45]. Quoted from a report published in The Hindu on 20 April 1951.

  [46]. Inward Telegram to Commonwealth Relations Office, 3 May 1956, Document No C 1852/1, the National Archives, Kew.

  [47]. Inward Telegram to Commonwealth Relations Office, 6 June 1956, Document No C 1852/3, the National Archives, Kew.

  [48]. Priya Sahgal, Ramesh Vinayak, politics of shame, India Today, 22 August 2005.

  [49]. Manoj Mitta, Cong buries the Sikh massacre again, Indian Express, 9 August 2005.

  [50]. PM promises all steps to reopen ’84 riot cases, The Tribune, 11 August 2005.

  6. The search for Bose files

  [1]. Record no 845.00/3-2749, the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

  [2]. Report of the one-man Commission of Inquiry into the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, 1974, p. 113.

  [3]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume I, p. 10.

  [4]. Affidavit dated 14 December 2001 filed by Joint Secretary (CNV), Ministry of External Affairs, before Mukherjee Commission.

  [5]. Musharraf’s birth record to be presented by Manmohan, Pakistan Tribune, 16 April 2005, accessed from http://paktribune.com/news/Musharrafs-birth-record-to-be-presented-by-Manmohan-101897.html.

  [6]. See Appendix 25 of the Manual of Office Procedure, 12th edition, May 2003, Department of Administrative Reforms & PG.

  [7]. Central Information Commission order dated 25 January 2008 over Appeal No CIC/WB/A/2007/00129.

  [8]. Annexure A/5 to Mukherjee Commission report, Volume I, p. 136.

  [9].Ibid, p. 138.

  [10].Ibid, p. 135.

  [11].Ibid, p. 139.

  [12]. Annexure A/11 to Mukherjee Commission report, Volume I, p. 149.

  [13]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume II A, p. 111.

  [14]. See Volume 5 of the Liddell Diaries for 1 December 1941-25 May 1942, the National Archives, Kew.

  [15]. Excerpted from BN Mullik’s examination before Khosla Commission on 8 August 1972.

  [16]. Khosla Commission exhibit No 30 Q obtained under RTI.

  [17]. Khosla Commission exhibit No 30 (R)(2) obtained under RTI.

  [18]. Khosla Commission exhibit No 30 T obtained under RTI.

  [19]. Khosla Commission exhibit No 30 (V)(1) obtained under RTI.

  [20]. Excerpted from Atma Jayaram’s examination before Khosla Commission on 9 August 1972.

  [21]. GD Khosla’s note in file No INA 273 at the National Archives of India, New Delhi.

  [22]. Record of proceedings of Khosla Commission obtained under RTI, Volume XI, p. 3325.

  [23]. Report of the one-man Commission of Inquiry into the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, 1974, p. 61.

  [24]. General’s revelation, HindustanTimes.com Netaji probe Phase 1, accessed from http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/Netaji/tipoff.htm.

  7. Ashes which turned to bones

  [1]. Anshul Chaturvedi, Netaji died in crash, take DNA test to prove it, The Time of India, 17 May 2005.

  [2]. Affidavit filed before the Mukherjee Commission on 6 March 2000 by Surya Kumar Bose.

  [3]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume I, p. 23.

  [4]. Ibid, p. 25.

  [5]. Ibid, p. 30.

  [6]. Ibid, pp 30-31.

  8. How India dealt with Russia over Subhas Bose’s fate

  [1]. Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bose was in Russia, Hindustan Times, 4 March 2001.

  [2]. Netaji Inquiry Committee Report, Government of India press, New Delhi, 1956, p. 6.

  [3]. Major Hugh Toye’s report to Comdt, CSDIC (I), Red Fort, 28 February 1946, the National Archives of India, New Delhi.

  [4]. Netaji Inquiry Committee Report, Government of India press, New Delhi, 1956, p. 65.

  [5]. Record of proceedings of Khosla Commission obtained under RTI, Volume VI, p. 2450.

  [6]. Ibid. Pp 2368, 2379.

  [7]. Record of the proceedings of Mukherjee Commission. Deposition of Bhaskaran Menon on 15 July 2000.

  [8]. Ibid.

  [9]. Record of the deposition of Col Pritam Singh before Mukherjee Commission on 22 July 2000.

  [10]. Extract from written statement by Watanabe, Kinji. File no INA 273, the National Archives of India, New Delhi.

  [11]. Report of the one-man Commission of Inquiry into the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, 1974, p. 18.

  [12]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume I, p. 85.

  [13]. Raoul Wallenberg: Report of the Swedish-Russian Working Group (2000), Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, pp. 87, 183.

  [14]. Dr William Korey, The Wallenberg mystery: Fifty-five years later, American Jewish Committee publication, New York.

  [15]. Raoul Wallenberg: Report of the Swedish-Russian Working Group (2000), Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, pp. 87 and 89.

  [16] Dr William Korey, The Wallenberg mystery: Fifty-five years later, American Jewish Committee publication, New York.

  [17]. Dr William Korey, The last word on Wallenberg? New investigations, new questions, American Jewish Committee publication, New York, p. 27.

  [18]. Rachel Oestreicher Bernheim, Raoul Wallenberg: A Hero for our time, accessed from http://www.raoulwallenberg.org/raoulwallenberg_aheroforourtime.htm.

  [19]. Soviet outburst against Bose, Hindustan Times, 8 January 1946.

 
; [20]. Chronology maintained by the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States, New York.

  [21]. Raoul Wallenberg: Report of the Swedish-Russian Working Group (2000), Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, p. 178.

  [22]. Ibid, p. 103.

  [23]. Netaji Probe: Former MP examined, National Herald, Delhi, 18 October 1970.

  [24]. Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bose was in Russia, Hindustan Times, 4 March 2001.

  [25]. Rai Singh, Netaji in Siberia, Hindustan Times (letters section), 2 January 2001.

  [26]. Dr William Korey, The last word on Wallenberg? New investigations, new questions, American Jewish Committee publication, New York, p. 9.

  [27]. Barbara Crossette, A new India inquiry is weighed in death of Axis ally in ‘45, The New York Times, 20 June 1990.

  [28]. ‘Netaji in Soviet custody’ denied, National Herald, 4 November 1970.

  [29]. Mandira Purie, India Today special issue, 25 December 2000, p.64.

  [30]. Letter from Charlton Heston concerning criminal conviction of Adil Shahryar to Attorney General William French Smith, 9 August 1982, NARA Record Group 60, Accession # 60-89-372, the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

  [31]. Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bose was in Russia, Hindustan Times, 4 March 2001.

  [32]. US Department of State, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Government Printing Press, Washington, Series D, Vol XII, pp 63-64.

  [33]. V Touradjev, Against whom Subhas Chandra Bose fought during the years of Second World War, the Scottish Church Commemorative volume, 1997.

  [34]. Suresh Bose, Dissentient Report, 1961 edition, pp 55-6.

  [35]. V Touradjev, Against whom Subhas Chandra Bose fought during the years of Second World War, the Scottish Church Commemorative volume, 1997.

  [36]. Britain ordered Netaji’s killing claims scholar, the Economic Times, 17 August 2005.

  [37]. Anthony Paul, Bose mystery continues, The Strait Times, 14 January 2006.

  [38]. V Touradjev, Against whom Subhas Chandra Bose fought during the years of Second World War, the Scottish Church Commemorative volume, 1997.

  [39]. Ibid, p. 275.

  [40]. Ibid, p. 276.

  [41]. Chronology maintained by the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States, New York.

  [42]. Excerpted from the record of Suman Chattopadhya’s cross-examination before the Mukherjee Commission on 23 November 2000.

  [43]. Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, From Russia with silence, Hindustan Times, 24 January 2001.

  [44]. Ibid.

  [45]. Russia has no records on Netaji’s “death”, The Statesman, 3 December 1996.

  [46]. Jaideep Mazumdar, Purabi Roy’s appeal on Bose research ignored, HindustanTimes.com Netaji probe Phase 1, accessed from http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/netaji/purabi_itn.htm.

  [47]. Record of proceedings of Khosla Commission obtained under RTI, Volume XI, p. 3416.

  [48]. Raoul Wallenberg: Report of the Swedish-Russian Working Group (2000), Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, p. 13.

  [49]. G Sampath, 'The Intelligence Bureau was closer to MI5 than to Nehru', DNA, 2 May 2010. Accessed from: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_the-intelligence-bureau-was-closer-to-mi5-than-to-nehru_1377898-all.

  [50]. Raoul Wallenberg: Report of the Swedish-Russian Working Group (2000), Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, p. 170.

  [51]. Ibid, p. 7.

  [52]. Prime Minister Göran Persson’s official comments on the Wallenberg report, 12 January 2001.

  [53]. Raoul Wallenberg 2012, http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/15163.

  [54]. Former Russian Archive Official Says Wallenberg File Exists, 30 January 2012, http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/wallenberg-files-exist-official-says/451987.html.

  [55]. Japan confirms secret pact on US nuclear transit, BBC News, 9 March 2010.

  [56-57]. Sudhir Ghose, Gandhi’s Emissary, 1967, Kolkata, Rupa and Co, See pp 331 and 334-336 for Ghose’s account.

  [58]. Inder Malhotra, JN to JFK, ‘Eyes Only’, Indian Express, 15 November 2010.

  [59]. Inder Malhotra, Letters from the darkest hour, Indian Express, 17 November 2010.

  [60]. BBC Timewatch—Hitler’s Death: The final report, 1995.

  9. The “Dead Man” returns

  [1]. NK Singh, Questions Miss Bose would like to be answered, The Pioneer, 1 April 1986.

  [2]. Excerpted from the record of Dwindranath Bose’s examination before Khosla Commission on 9 August 1972.

  [3]. Mukherjee Commission exhibit No 142 obtained under Right to Information.

  [4]. A new enlarged edition of Oi mahamanaba asey by Charnik was published by Jayasree publications in 2010.

  [5]. Mukherjee Commission exhibit No 221.

  [6]. Mukherjee Commission exhibit No 151.

  [7]. Meenakshi Ganguly, Keeping the faith, TIME (Asia), 19 April 1999, Vol 153, no 15.

  [8]. File No INA 401, the National Archives of India, New Delhi.

  [9]. Netaji Inquiry Committee Report, Government of India press, New Delhi, 1956, pp 31-22.

  10. Why ‘Dead Man’tale can’t be wished away

  [1]. Bose niece wants mystery solved, Hindustan Times, 24 October 1989.

  [2]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume 1, pp 119-120.

  [3]. Ibid, p. 120.

  [4]. Ibid, p. 122.

  [5]. Aloke Banerjee, 'UP monk was Bose in hiding', Mail today, 29 January 2010, accessed from http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/%27UP+monk+was+Bose+in+hiding%27/1/81464.html.

  [6]. Sayantan Chakravarty, Stephen David and Labonita Ghosh, Fumbling Police, India Today, 20 December 1999.

  [7]. Satya Prakash, CBI to SC: Move Sohrabuddin case trial out of Gujarat, Hindustan Times, 30 July 2010.

  [8]. Dhananjay Mahapatra, SC stick for Gujarat in Sohrabuddin case, The Times of India, 2 December 2011.

  [9]. Mukherjee Commission exhibit No 277.

  [10]. Mukherjee Commission exhibit No 283.

  [11]. Mukherjee Commission exhibit No 277.

  [12]. Luv Puri, Severe punishment for fudging DNA samples, The Hindu, 24 July 2003.

  [13]. Gudigunta Srinivas and P Pandarinath, FSL reports for sale! Hyderabad journal, 19 September 2010.

  [14]. US embassy cables: Seeing eye to eye on counter-terrorism, 16 December 2010, accessed from http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/60802.

  [15]. Government appoints team to examine state of forensic science, DNA, 1 February 2010, accessed from http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_government-appoints-team-to-examine-state-of-forensic-science_1341982.

  [16]. Mukherjee Commission exhibit No 222.

  [17]. Mukherjee Commission exhibit No 222A.

  [18]. Saikat Ray, CFSL scientists claim breakthrough in DNA, The Times of India, 14 April 2000.

  [19]. Peter Popham, DNA tests rekindle mystery of kidnapped British trekkers, The Independent, 28 March 2000.

  [20]. Ibid.

  [21]. Netaji Inquiry Committee Report, Government of India press, New Delhi, 1956, p. 6.

  [22]. SACSEA Commission No 1 report dated 6 November 1945, file No INA 400, the National Archives of India, New Delhi.

  [23]. File No INA 249, the National Archives of India, New Delhi.

  [24]. Netaji brother critical of Nehru’s stand, The Times of India, 6 November 1970.

  [25]. Shahnawaz played Netaji false, Hindustan Times, 18 November 1970.

  [26]. TN Kaul, Reminiscences discreet and indiscreet, Lancer publishers, 1982, p. 150.

  [27]. Larry Collins and Dominque Lapierre, Mountbatten and the Partition of India, Volume I, Vikas Publishing House, 1982, p. 54.

  [28]. TN Kaul, Reminiscences discreet and indiscreet, Lancer publishers, 1982, p. 212.

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  [31]. Indian National Army: Long controversy ended, The Times (London), 30 March 1948.

  [32]. Quoted from the record of Dr RC Majumdar’s deposition before the Khosla Commission on 5 December 1972.

  [33]. Priyadarsi Mukherji, India-China relations: A journey to the unexplored domains of history and culture, Journal of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Vol 2, Number 4 (October-December 2003).

  [34]. Report No 1300/SE, 21 March 1946, File No INA 400, the National Archives of India, New Delhi.

  [35]. Report of the one-man Commission of Inquiry into the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, 1974, p. 20.

  [36]. Subhas Bose in Red China? Indian Express, 19 July 1949.

  [37]. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report, Volume IIB, p. 305.

  [38]. Elliot Erikson, Jawaharlal Nehru and the Red threat to India, National Republic, February 1954.

  [39]. Mukherjee Commission exhibit No 155(a) obtained under RTI.

  [40]. Chand Joshi, CIA coached Indians on intelligence, Hindustan Times, 14 March 1975.

  [41]. Quoted from the record of the Barun Sengupta’s examination before the Khosla Commission on 6 July 1972.

  [42]. Govt’s ‘belated’ probe on Netaji’s death questioned, The Motherland, 22 January 1974.

  [43]. Lowell Thomas Jr, The Dalai Lama, Ballantine Books, New York, 1961, p. 83.

  [44]. Life of naam avatara Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath,http://www.streamsofnectar.com/about-naam.html.

  [45]. Praveen Swami, India's secret war in Bangladesh, The Hindu, 26 December 2011.

  [46]. Yatindra Bhatnagar, Bangla Desh: Birth of a nation, p. 69, Indian School Supply Depot Publication Division, New Delhi, 1971.

  [47]. William L Marcy, Jorrit Kamminga, The politics of cocaine, Lawrence Hill Books, 2010, p, 9.

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  [49]. Record of proceedings of Khosla Commission obtained under RTI, Volume XVIII, pp 4805-6.

  [50]. Ibid, pp 4806-7.

  [51]. Prabha Jagannathan, Vietnam archives hold key to Netaji flight, The Telegraph, 26 September 1994.

  [52]. Record of proceedings of Khosla Commission obtained under RTI, Volume X, pp 3076-77.