Netaji was in Russia in 1946?

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Netaji was in Russia in 1946?

Jaideep Mazumdar

(Calcutta, December 22)

 

 

THE PROBE into the alleged disappearance of Netaji Subhash Chandra

Bose intensified with a new set of documents that cast doubts on the

theory that Netaji died in an air crash off Japan's Taihoku Island in

August 1945.

 

Dr Purabi Roy, a teacher at the International Relations Department of

Jadavpur University (JU) submitted this evidence before the Justice M

K Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry.

 

Roy had chanced upon the evidence during her interaction with Russian

scholars and Indophiles and from archives in that country. She was

researching for the Asiatic Society.

 

According to the evidence, Netaji was in Russia long after the plane

crash. Deposing before the Commission today, Roy said that "the most

revealing document (Document No 22)" was a statement by the then

Soviet ambassador to Teheran. The ambassador had delivered a letter

from Nehru to Stalin in October 1946. Nehru had, in the letter,

referred to the INA chief's stay in the USSR at that time.

 

Another such document contained details of a meeting at Moscow in

October 1946 between Stalin, Soviet foreign minister Molotov and

other high officials. "Stalin and the others discussed Netaji in the

present tense and also referred to his presence at that point of time

in the USSR," Roy told the Commission.