Netaji's family seeks RSS's intervention on secret files

Some family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have sought intervention of the RSS in the declassification of secret files, held by the central government, on the disappearance of the freedom fighter.

Several members of the family, led by Chitra Ghosh and Dr D N Bose, Netaji's niece and nephew respectively, met top RSS functionary Indresh Kumar in Kolkata last evening to impress upon him the need to declassify the files on Netaji.

The move followed the Narendra Modi government's refusal to release the secret files, many of which are about Netaji's disappearance, as did the previous governments, citing possible adverse impact on relation with other nations.

"Justice Mukherjee (head of one-man commission of inquiry set up by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government) also noted in his report that vital documents held by the Government of India were not made available to him, and that this had hampered his quest for the truth in the disappearance," read a letter signed by Netaji's niece Chitra Ghosh and Chandra Kumar Bose and Abhijit Ray, Netaji's grandnephews, which was handed over to Kumar. The family also called for setting up of a Special Investigation Team under the guidance of a leading judge of the Supreme Court to investigate into Netaji's disappearance mystery.