[Assam] We have no info on Netajis disappearance: RAW

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

We have no info on Netaji’s 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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