Report on Netaji's disappearance rejected
New Delhi, May 17: The Union Government today rejected the finding of the Justice Mukherjee Commission that Indian National Army (INA) founder and freedom fighter 'Netaji' Subhash Chandra Bose did not die in the plane crash.
The govenment also disagreed with the commission's finding that the ashes in the Renkoji temple in Japan were not of Netaji.
The report of the commission was placed before both houses of Parliament by Home Minister Shivraj Patil, along with a Memorandum of Action Taken by the government on the report regarding the alleged disappearance of Netaji.
Mr M K Mukherjee, retired judge of the Supreme Court, was appointed as a one-man Commission of Inquiry on May 14, 1999, under the Commission of Inquiry Act of 1952 to probe the facts and circumstances related to the disappearance of Netaji in 1945. The Commission was specifically asked to go into the issue of whether Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is dead or alive; if he is dead, whether he died in the plane crash, as alleged; whether the ashes in the Japanese temple are ashes of Netaji; whether he has died in any other manner at any other place, and if so, when and how; if he is alive, in respect of his whereabouts.
The government also tabled a statement listing out reasons for dealy in placing the report before the Parliament.
Mr
Patil
said
in
the
statement
that
the
commission
submitted
its
report
on
November
8.
Though
it
had
to
be
placed
before
the
house
within
six
months
of
submission,
i.e.,
before
May
7,
it
could
not
do
so
due
to
the
time
taken
in
translation,
printing,
consideration
of
the
report
by
the
government,
its
aproval
by
the
Union
Cabinet
and
the
adjournment
of
Parliament
on
March
22.
UNI