Nehru Govt\\'s complicity in scuttling inquiry

The Mukherjee Commission\\'s report cites an example how Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru\\'s Government hid a crucial evidence from the people of India about Netaji\\'s "death". A month before the Nehru Government made public the Shah Nawaz Committee report, they had duly received five copies of an official report from Taiwan, thanks to the British High Commission in Delhi. On September 11, 1956, Nehru stated in Parliament that "Government feels that this conclusion of the Committee about Netaji\\'s death (in Taiwan) should be accepted as the evidence adduced in the report is practically overwhelming". However, the report handed over by the British High Commission was not mentioned in the Shah Nawaz Khan\\'s report. Not a word about it was heard until Justice Mukherjee discovered the recently declassified original report in London\\'s National Archives and utilised it to reject the official version of Netaji\\'s death.

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JMCI report extract: It appears that a copy of the said report duly authenticated by Her Majesty’s Consul was handed over the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India by the High Commissioner for U.K. in India on August 10, 1956. A copy of the said letter is annexed herewith (Annexure – D/6). Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the record of the above inquiry was collected by this Commission from U.K. National Archives on its own initiative and was not received from the Government of India.

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