Taiwan to help solve Netaji mystery

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Taiwan to open archives to Netaji panel

Taiwan to help solve Netaji mystery

Press Trust of India

 

Kolkata, February 10, 2005|01:16 IST

The Taiwan government has informed the commission probing the

disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose that it would provide

documents available with it about the Taihoku airport, hospital and

the crematorium, between August 18 and 24, 1945.

 

Taiwan authorities had earlier informed the Mukherjee Commission that

no plane crash took place at Taihoku, the old name of Taipei, on or

around August 18, 1945, which is alleged to have killed Netaji.

 

Revealing that several documents were preserved at the National

Archive in Taiwan, Justice MK Mukherjee, who visited the country

recently, said the authorities had informed the commission that the

documents would be sent to the Ministry of External Affairs in 15

days as required by the probe panel.

 

Justice Mukherjee, who heard two deponents at the hearing on

Thursday, said that the panel was awaiting several important

documents from the Taiwan government by the middle of this month to

ascertain Netaji's alleged death.

 

He later told reporters that during his visit to Taiwan he had

requested Taiwan government officials to send all related documents

from the airport, hospital and crematorium six days after August 18,

1945, when the place crash was believed to have taken place.

 

The commission had also asked the MEA to pursue the matter with its

Taiwanese counterpart.

 

The two deponents before the commission during the day - Dr

Madhusudan Pal and Nandalal Chakravarty - claimed that the alleged

death of Netaji in a plane crash on August 18 at Taihoku was

absolutely untrue.

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