Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs has appointed two Commissions namely Justice Khosla Commission and Justice M.K. Mukherjee to enquire into the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on 11.07.1970 & 14.05.1999 respectively. The Commissions submitted their reports on 30.06.1974 & 08.11.2005 respectively. Files relating to both the commissions have been sent by Ministry of Home Affairs to National Archives of India (NAI) on 01.10.2012 for permanent retention. National Archives of India has informed that the work of arrangement of these papers was kept on hold following a communication from Ministry of Home Affairs to return 700 items to the Faizabad Treasury as per direction of Hon’ble High Court, Allahabad communicated by UP Chief Secretary.
National Archives of India has prepared the detailed list of the Justice Mukherjee Commission papers and the same have been made available for the scholars visiting the Research Room, National Archives of India (NAI) from 17.11.2014. National Archives of India has further informed that 04 files related to Azad Hind Government are available with them.
Moreover, as informed by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), 29 files are lying with them. As informed by Ministry of External Affairs, they are not considering to declassify the records and sending to National Archives of India. As informed by Prime Minister’s Office, they have 60 files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, out of which, 2 Top Secret files have been declassified and sent to National Archives of India.
Ministry of External Affairs has informed that the information contained in these files is of sensitive nature and brining this information in public domain at this juncture is not desirable from the point of view of India’s relations with other countries.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in a written reply to Shri Sukhendu Sekar Roy in the Rajya Sabha today.
