The government is finally preparing to make public a selection of secret and controversial documents relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s reported death and subsequent events.
The documents include communications to and from then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the chiefs of intelligence, which had been given to the Shah Nawaz Khan Committee of 1956 and Justice GD Khosla Commission of 1970.
Both had concluded that Netaji died in an air crash in August 1945, a conclusion trashed
by the Justice M.K. Mukherjee Commission in its November 2005 report.
The documents were never allowed to be made public for the next four decades. Till July, the Union Home Ministry also staved off attempts to release them under the Right To Information law saying the documents sought were voluminous, top secret in nature and may lead to chaos in the country if disclosed.
But a Central Information Commission decision in the same month has helped bring about the change in its assessment.
Officials said the Shivraj Patil-led Home Ministry had come around to the view that there really was no fear of a law and order problem if the secret documents were revealed.
Last week, Patil moved the Cabinet Committee of Political Affairs to seek a decision on releasing the files.
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