We have no info on Netajis disappearance: RAW
Thursday, 01 February , 2007, 10:27
Kolkata: In its first-ever response to an unofficial
body, the country's premier external intelligence agency Research and Analysis
wing (RAW) has informed 'Mission Netaji' that it was not holding any
information on Subhas Chandra Bose.
Mission Netaji is conducting its own investigation into the mysterious
disappearance of the hero and moving various government agencies for
information on the matter. It had requested the RAW under the Right To
Information Act for disclosure of any information that it might hold on the
issue.
"I am directed to inform you ... that the RAW does not have any
information pertaining to Netaji. As such no list as requested by you ..can be
provided," under secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat P N Ranjit Kumar told
Mission Netaji's Anuj Dhar in a letter dated January 19, 2007.
Kumar also reminded Dhar that the RAW was not obliged to provide any
information under the RTI Act.
Dhar, however, is sceptical about RAW's response.
"In 2001, the then Home Secretary Kamal Pande filed an affidavit before
the Mukherjee Commission (which was probing Netaji's mysterious
disappearance). This affidavit listed out several Top Secret/Secret records
whose disclosure was likely to evoke widespread reactions and harm India's
relations with friendly countries," Dhar said.
He said among these records some are with RAW.
It was an 'Under Office' note under the identification number
11/1/94-IC-2829 dated March 25, 1994, concerning certain articles based on
classified KGB records published in a Russian journal.
Dhar claimed that the RAW had initially informed Mission Netaji that it
had no record or files relating to the alleged disappearance of Netaji as the
organisation was formed on September 21, 1968.
"And now, P N Ranjit Kumar has made a sweeping statement that RAW does
not have any information pertaining to Netaji and that RAW is under no
obligation to spill the beans. But it has no licence to mislead either," Dhar
said.
The Delhi-based organisation would now bring the matter to the notice of
the Central Information Commission.
PMO refuses to furnish data on Netaji
Friday, 22 December , 2006, 10:16
New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office has refused to furnish
data on documents and records it holds on the mysterious disappearance of
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, saying the disclosure would harm India's relations
with foreign countries.
"On verification of the classified files held by PMO, it is held that their
disclosure will prejudicially affect relations with foreign countries," Joint
Secretary to the Prime Minister and Appellate Authority in the PMO Sanjay Mitra
told Anuj Dhar of Delhi-based Mission Netaji, who sought the list under the
Right to Information Act. The PMO's denial comes close on the heels of Chief
Information Officer A N Tiwari's warning to the Union Home Ministry that it
would take stern action if the Ministry did not furnish the 202 documents on
Netaji under its possession.
Dhar, whose organisation is on a campaign to bring out the �truth� behind
Netaji's disappearance, had earlier requested PMO's Central Public Information
Officer Kamal Dayani to confirm if the PMO was holding classified records on
Bose, and provide a list of all such records along with the unclassified ones.
In reply, Dayani provided a list of only the unclassified files, most relating
to Bose's disappearance. In keeping with the RTI procedure, Mission Netaji
reported the matter to the appellate authority in the PMO, complaining that
Dayani's answer was "incomplete" because it has not responded to the request
for the classified files.
Dhar, a journalist who has written Back from the Dead: Inside the Subhas Bose
Mystery, said he would take up the matter with the Central Information
Commission.
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