The airplane, subsequently unbalanced, crashed into ballast piles beside the strip of the airport. Shidei and other two men died within the plane. Takakura on September 8 , at the Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo. The Formosan report cast no doubts on the details of the crash or the subsequent death of Netaji. She confirmed the account recorded by Figgess in September With slight groaning, he would ask for water.
I gave him water several times. In , members of the Indian Independence League IIL , carried out an investigation based on circumstantial evidence and individual contact. They concluded, however, that the aircraft crash had not been an accident but an act of sabotage. According to the IIL, Japanese officials could neither risk shielding Netaji from the Allies lest he resurface, nor hand him over and endanger relations with India.
Notwithstanding these investigations, the demand for an official probe into the fate of Netaji continued to grow in India. Maitra of the Indian Civil Service. Its findings are a voluminous work, digitised and available in the public domain today.
They cross-examined five of the six persons who had accompanied Netaji on his last flight from Bangkok, including Habibur Rehman. The committee could not visit Taihoku, the crash site, as India did not yet have diplomatic relations with Formosa.
On concluding its inquiry, the committee prepared a three-page draft report. These included that:. Strangely, soon after signing the draft report on July 2, , Suresh Bose took a different view and did not sign the final report.
The final report, signed by Khan and Maitra, was submitted on August 3, It was accepted by the Indian parliament in September It was also tabled in parliament. A decade later, in February , Suresh Bose announced to the press that his brother, Subhas, would return in March. The committee was criticised for not visiting Taihoku — and also because neither Shahnawaz nor Maitra had judicial experience.
Unsurprisingly, nothing new came out of the Khosla Commission. Over a period of four years, he also interviewed Shahnawaz Khan, Suresh Bose and other witnesses.
He concluded, like the others before him, that Netaji had been grievously injured by the aircraft crash at Taihoku and died the same night. Still others submitted photographs purportedly showing Bose visiting Peking in with a Mongolian Trade Union delegation para 6. The plane with 11 Japanese, Netaji and his treasure boxes took off from Tourane at sunrise. We commemorate his death anniversary on 18 August every year because, according to some of the significant biographers, Netaji died in a plane crash in Taihoku Japanese Taiwan on that day in The initial investigations carried out by the British Army, the government of British India, the government of Japan, and the Allied Forces also reached the same conclusion that Netaji suffered severe burns during the crash and later died in a hospital on the same day.
According to an article published in The Wire, an independent and private investigation was carried out by war journalist Harin Shah, also corroborated the same story.
In , Suresh Bose also claimed that Netaji is all set to make a return. News India. Here's what Netaji's daughter says Netaji's daughter Anita Bose had revealed how her iconic father died in Zee News App: Read latest news of India and world, bollywood news, business updates, cricket scores, etc.
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