At a time when the debate on mysterious disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is still on, RTI documents provided by the Union Home Ministry reveals that Bose died in a plane crash on August 18, 1945 in Taihoku in Japan.
In an RTI reply, the Union Home Ministry revealed, “The Government of India had constituted three commissions, Mukherjee, Shah Nawaz and Khosla. These commissions were constituted to inquire into the death/disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.”
The RTI reply further stated, “Shah Nawaz and Khosla Commissions conclude that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in plane crash at Taihoku on August 18, 1945, and he was cremated in Taihoku crematorium and his ashes were taken to Tokyo and preserved in the Renkoji temple there.”
Balangir-based RTI activist Hemanta Panda had sought the information.