NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE ALIVE BESIDE JAWAHARLAL NEHRU'S DEAD BODY - FACTS ANALYSIS

NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE ALIVE BESIDE JAWAHARLAL NEHRU'S DEAD BODY - FACTS ANALYSIS

Story: 
A picture from Jawaharlal Nehru's death, dated on 27th may 1964 shows a person beside him claiming that it is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose who was alive during that time, and was present beside Nehru's dead body.

Hoax or Fact:

Hoax.

Analysis:

The story comes with a picture from Nehru's death scene along with a person standing just beside him, claiming that it was the real Subhash Chandra Bose who was still alive, and was present on 27th may 1964 just beside the dead body of Jawaharlal Nehru. The picture is a genuine one, but the person is not Subhash Chandra Bose. This picture is actually taken from a video footage of Jawaharlal Nehru's death that you can see on right.

The person who is claimed to be Subhash Chandra Bose is actually a respectable Cambodian Buddhist monk named Vira Dhammavara, who lived in south Delhi for decades before passing away in the USA few years back at the grand old age

of 110. You can find a series of his pictures in the image section. Unlike Netaji, Dhammavara was a short statured person, while Netaji was almost 5' 10". What made this alleged Subhash Chandra Bose picture so popular is the similarity to Netaji in his young age. You can find one of his similar pictures in the image section which was taken in Kolkata in the year 1934, after his father's death. You can also find some of the historic pictures of Subhash Chandra Bose in the reference section.

Therefore, the message claiming that the person in the picture beside Nehru is Subhash Chandra Bose is a hoax. Netaji is alleged to have died in a plane crash in Taiwan on 18 August 1945, years before the death of Jawaharlal Nehru. However, there is some mystery associated with his death till date.

HINDU Terminal....!: ''Netaji still alive and healthy:'' son of former aide

HINDU Terminal....!: ''Netaji still alive and healthy:'' son of former aide

Yogi Maharaj is Netaji

Yogi Maharaj is Netaji Dear Editor, Samarat Yogi Maharaj is Netaji. He is more than 100 years old, stands 6 feet and 1 inch and is hale and hearty. He is currently at his ashram at Sitapur in UP. He does not claim he is Netaji, but his writings and speech prove beyond doubt that he is truly Netaji. Regards Chaaju Ram Vishwakarma 310, Sain Colony, Near Loko Shed, Ghaziabad Ph: 4740189.

My grandmother saw Netaji in Rishikesh

My grandmother saw Netaji in Rishikesh

Dear Editor, My grandfather Peshori Lal was posted at Teen Murti Bhawan in the Malaria Cell of the New Delhi Municipal Committee. After his retirement he went to Rishikesh to spend the rest of his life as a mendicant. He had a small cottage to himself and he lived there under the assumed name of Moni Baba Prashar. I remember that during my visit to his ashram, my grandmother mentioned having met a man who looked just like Netaji Subhas Bose. Since she was unsure of the man, she quizzed inmates of the nearby ashram who had interacted with him. They all confirmed that he was indeed Netaji. This man, she said, was in a saintly garb and was spending his life somewhere in the high mountains along with his followers. Mr Satinder Pal Singh 92-B, Arjun Nagar, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi - 110029. Ph - 6187939

'Emilie knew Subhas was alive'

(This statement was given to hindustantimes.com by Surya Kumar Bose, grand-nephew of Subhas Chandra Bose. He is currently in Hamburg, Gemany. He has lived in Germany since 1972)

 
   Mrs.Emilie Schenkl-Bose, wife of Subhas Chandra Bose and my great-aunt had told me in January 1973 that Mr. Raimund Schnabel, a German journalist who had settled down in East Berlin after the World War II had told her in early 1950 that he had been informed that Netaji was in the Soviet Union after 1945. Unfortunately, Mr. Schnabel is no longer alive.
Between November 1972 when I came to Germany and March 1996 when Mrs. Schenkl-Bose passed away, she told me on various occasions that she did not believe in the alleged plane crash in Taihoku and consequently did not accept the so-called "ashes" in the Renkoji Temple as Netaji's remains.
In 1993, Prof. Bhairab Chandra Bhattacharya of Princeton University, USA came across a letter of Khurshed Naoroji, written to Prof. Louis Fischer on behalf of Mahatma Gandhi. He had sent a photocopy of this letter to my father Amiya Nath Bose and also to Prof. Samar Guha. I have a copy of the same.
This letter was kept open while the rest of the correspondence was kept sealed till January 2000.
I quote below a few lines from that letter dated 22.07.1946 (pages 4 and 5):
".....The Indian Army (not the Indian National Army) is no longer of the same temper as it was in the first world war. Besides the disaffection amongst the Indian officers & the rank & file, a revolutionary group has been working amongst them - they are pro -Russian. ...At heart the Indian Army is sympathetic with the Indian National Army. If Bose comes with the help of Russia neither Gandhiji nor the Congress will be able to reason with the country ..."
This letter raises interesting questions as regards the information Gandhi and Khurshed Naoroji may have had on Bose's fate at the time the letter was written. It is therefore advisable to view the rest of the correspondence as well as the personal diaries of Louis Fischer.         
Surya Kumar Bose
Heinrich-Mueller-Stieg 19
22041 Hamburg, Germany

Disclose 'each' record on Bose's death: CIC to MHA

As he relinquished the post of Chief Information Commissioner, the mild-mannered Wajahat Habibullah gave his parting gift to all declassification enthusiasts. Brushing aside the protestations of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Central Information Commission has asked it to release 290 records exhibited before Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry which probed the death of Subhas Chandra Bose between 2000-20004.

The Ministry has been plainly told to release the records sought "within twenty working days of the date of receipt of this Decision Notice" -- which would mean roughly a month from now. Included in these records are several secret files originating from different ministries. The CIC has left it to the ministry to hold back records whose release the Ministry thinks can affect national interest. But it will have to justify any such step under the Section 8(1) of the RTI act.

This seminal order follows a 33-month long tug of war between Endthesecrecy.com’s Chandrachur Ghose and the Ministry of Home, which continues to be overtly sensitive about a case the Government of India and the intelligentsia think got closed 60 years ago.

It has always been an another matter that no one from the public side ever wondered why dozens of files about the Subhas Bose mystery remained secret decades after the matter ceased to be politically hot issue. Perhaps some people did, but the right questions were not thrown at those at the helm of affairs.

A start was made in 2003 by the people who now run this site. Sayantan Dasgupta sought the exhibits used by a previous commission of inquiry into Bose’s death. The Home Ministry stalled off the matter as long as they could till they were told by the entire CIC Commissioners’ Bench to release the papers. Eventually, they released a few papers, not parting with the most sensitive ones. But even those gave away enough information to reinforce the long-held belief that the commission appointed by the Indira Gandhi government had taken recourse to fraudulent means to prove that Netaji had died in an air crash.

Mukherjee Commission overturned that finding but the UPA government had better of it when they arbitrarily rejected its report.

The saga of present RTI case began in 2006 when Chandrachur Ghose sought the copies of the exhibits used by the Mukherjee Commission. For a start, the MHA sought 3-6 months' time to examine the security implications of some the documents. Then the ministry suddenly informed Ghose after a year that it had decided to transfer the documents to the National Archives. The Ministry did not, however, mention whether it would transfer all documents to the National Archives or only selected ones.

A year and a half later, the process of transfering the record was still in the works. An agitated Ghose took the matter to Chief Information Commissioner.

On 4 September 2009 a hearing took place in the chamber Wajahat Habibullah. It was attended by a MHA team headed by a Joint Secretary and Chandrachur Ghose and Anuj Dhar of EndTheSecrecy.

Ghose brought on record recent RTI responses from PMO and MoD to punch holes in the MHA's declassification claims. The fact of the matter is that in India there is no declassification to speak of and the National Archives usually doesn't get the custody of even the declassified records. Dhar dubbed as "a red herring" the Ministry's move to send the Mukherjee Commission records to the National Archives. The officials from MHA's Internal Security Division submitted that while they could release the records created by them, those originating from other ministries could not be released by them without others concurrence.

Taking the Ministry to task, Habibullah pressed that declassification process could not go on indefinitely. He also cited relevant clauses of the RTI Act stating that although documents might belong to different ministries, the Act is applicable to the 'holder' of the documents. The MHA is the nodal ministry in the Subhas Bose mystery matter.

The Chief Information Commissioner reserved his formal order, which has now been released and can be seen on the CIC website.

Endthesecrecy.com’s estimate is that the MHA will release unclassified records, holding back classified one. As such, a close to this chapter is still far off.

Netaji Undoubtedly the GREATEST SON PRODUCED BY EARTH SOIL EVER

We all wants the TRUTH behind NETAJI'S DEATH BADLY,as this has been already became THE MYSTERY UNSOLVED 4 THE LONGEST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND since 18 TH AUGUST, 1945 till date & 67 years is not a JOKE.

We, neither only the Bengalis, nor the INDIANS ALMOST ALL THE PEOPLE OF WORLD STILL BEILEVES THAT HE(NETAJI) DID NOT DIE ON THE AFORESAID DATE AS IT WAS A FAKE STORY WHICH HAS BEEN ALREADY PROVED by JUSTICE MUKHERJEE COMMISSION lead by JUSTICE MANOJ KUMAR MUKHOPADHYAY but our RESPECTED PERLIAMENT MEMBERS did not accept the TRUTH as it may REVEAL MANY MANY TRUTHS AND CONSPIRACIES WHICH MAY COSTS BIG NAMES AND BIG DESIGNATIONS IN NEGATIVE...................................

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• Anuj Dhar (Author of Back from Dead: Inside the Subhas Bose Mystery)
 
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• Bhagath Singh
 
• Chandrim kar
 
• CIA Secret document.
 
• Freedom of Information
 
• Manabendra Ghosh
 
• Mission Netaji
 
• Ranendra Kishore Chatterjee
 
• Sagarika Roy
 
• Sanchita Chakraborty
 
• Saurabh Garai

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CIA record captures the spectre of Netaji's return in 1950

In a first instance of its kind, the world's the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified and released to an Indian citizen based in India two records sought under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The released documents make some interesting comments about India of circa 1950. Main among them is that four years after the reported death of Subhas Chandra Bose, the spectre of his return from the USSR remained strong enough to make many well-off Indians feel jittery. Since the source of CIA's information had to be but a highly-placed individual, the import of his inputs is that the belief of Bose's presence in USSR after his so-called disapperance was equally rooted among the elites, as with man on the street.

The number of documents releases is small, but it nevertheless marks a big leap for our nascent drive for ending the ecessive official secrecy in India. Here's the rub: In the world's leading democracy that is India, declassification remains an anathema -- specially for the intelligence agencies. Going by the present state of declassification, most of us would not live to see the day when R&AW and IB would began declassifying records no longer requiring security protection.

Then, the public memory is still fresh about the brazen manner in which our Government handled the "Russian-angle" finding of Justice Mukherjee Commission. On the other hand, the world's top intelligence agency has by releasing the records displayed the fairness that our government might like to follow. After all, the Government of India and its intelligence agencies are sitting on stockpile of classified information on the man who even in the estimates of his detractors was one of the topmost freedomfighters.

"The Agency Release Panel (ARP) considered your appeal and determined that the document that was initially denied in its entirety can now be released in part, with some information to remain protected from release on the basis of FOIA exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3)," wrote Delores M. Nelson, Executive Secretary Agency Release Panel to Anuj Dhar, author of Back from Dead: Inside the Subhas Bose Mystery. The panel comprising top CIA officers handles the appeals against denial of information under FOIA. Exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3) are invoked, as was the case in the present case, when the release of information could harm America's national security, including relations with foreign states; and name of the all-important source who provided the information contained in the records.

That the CIA should release the records sought make for a nice gesture indeed given that they were appealed by us to release the records in the interest of Netaji's admirers world over -- including the Americans of Indian origin.

CIA Information Report on the subject "Comments on political situation" [in India and Pakistan] was marked Confidential before it was declassified and sent to Dhar last week. The prevalent marking in those days in the agency were Secret, Confidential, Restricted and Clear. Which would mean that by today's standard, the document was deemed Secret. The highest level these days is Top Secret.

And one of the reasons the document is classified as such is because of the informant who provided the dope to the agency from Delhi. We would never know who this person was because his name and related details have been censored in the sanitized copy released by the agency. But we are not complaining. When the agency initially refused to release the record in the entirety, we implored them to release it in part, blocking out the name of the source that the CIA director is duty bound never to disclose.

For good measures, the markings on the record reveal that the source was "usually reliable" and his opinion was "probably true" -- just one degree below "the truth". With that sort of setting, here's is the crux of the document.

India of 1950 faced -- in source's estimate -- "some real potential danger". That is: Bose "is alive and is in Siberia, where he is waiting for a chance to make a big comeback".

The second record released by the agency is a "Restricted" one-line Information Report acquired in 1948. It speaks of the recurring rumor that Subhas Bose was alive and "active in the underground RSSS movement". In hindsight, one wonders why such a seemingly irrelevant piece of information on a man presumed dead years ago be described by the agency markings as "material requiring special handling"? Could it be that the document formed part of the many more papers on the subject of Subhas Bose mystery which was a rage in India those days?

Getting back to the first document, its source appeared impressed by the popularity of Bose in 1950. He painted this telling illustration: "Recently his life story was told in the Indian movies and I attended several different native theatres to study native reaction. Every time that the actor representing. Bose appeared on the screen, he was loudly applauded. This expression of great enthusiasm clearly indicated to me that Bose is a National hero, and in the eyes of the man on the street, I think he ranks next to Ghandi [sic]. The native Indian explanation for this is found in the fact that Bose took definite action against British rule."

Interestingly, and incredibly, "several educated Indians" told the source of their fear of the USSR sending "an imposter for Bose into India". "If Bose or an imposter should return, it is probable that a great many of the people would accept his leadership," source averred.

Chapter 3: Whether Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is dead or alive

3.1 Five versions relating to Netaji’s death including the dates and places thereof have been received by this Commission but to answer the above question those details need not be stated here, as they will have to be discussed at length in following chapter. For the present purpose reference only to the dates and places of death would suffice. Chronologically arranged, these particulars are as follows:-

i) He was murdered at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 1945;

ii) He died in an air crash at Taihoku (now Taipei) in Taiwan (formally Formosa) on August 18, 1945;

iii) He died at Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh (now Uttaranchal) in 1977;

iv) He died at Sheopurkalan in the State of Madhya Pradesh on May 21, 1977;

And

v) He died at Ram Bhawan in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, on September 16, 1985.

3.1.1 Needless to say, if it is conclusively proved that he died on any of the dates and places mentioned above, the versions relating to death on subsequent dates need not be dealt with as that would be redundant. If, however, it is found that none of the above versions relating to his death has been established, the question whether he is still alive or not has to be answered.

3.2 Considering the facts that the average life span of an Indian is 70-75 years and that Netaji was born on January 23, 1897(which is not disputed) more than 108 years ago, it can safely and surely be presumed that he is no more. While on this point it need be mentioned that some of the deponents and some learned Counsel appearing before this Commission have stated, in no uncertain terms, as there in no truth in any of the versions relating to Netaji’s death it must be presumed that he is still alive for, according to them, a person can live beyond that age of 100 years. In support of this submission they have drawn the attention of the Commission to a photograph annexed to a statement supported by an affidavit filed by Shri Jyotish Chandra Bose and others wherefrom it appears that a Sadhu aged 124 years was found to be living in the year 2000.

3.2.1 It is, of course, true that it is ‘possible’ for a person to live beyond the average life span of an Indian and in a rare case even more than 100 years, but any person or authority entrusted with the duty of investigating into a question of fact has to find an answer thereto depending on whether it is ‘probable’ – and not ‘possible’. The distinction between the above two expressions is that while the former means what is likely to happen in the common course of events, the later means what is unlikely to happen in the common course of events but may happen in exceptional cases. Judged in the light of the above Principle, if it is found that none of the versions regarding Netaji’s death is substantiated the only legitimate inference that can be drawn at this distant point of time is that Netaji is no more. Thus said, the truth or otherwise of the different versions relating to Netaji’s death may now be delved into.