02 September,2016 08:21 AM IST | | Agencies
A classified 60-year-old Japanese government document on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s death made public yesterday concludes that the legendary freedom fighter died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945
London: A classified 60-year-old Japanese government document on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's death made public yesterday concludes that the legendary freedom fighter died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, backing the official version.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Bosefiles.info, a UK website set up to document evidence on the circumstances surrounding Netaji's death, yesterday said this is the first time the report has been made public. "The report was completed in January 1956 and submitted to the Indian embassy in Tokyo, but since it was a classified document, neither side released it," the site says.
The seven-page report reaches the conclusion that Netaji met with an air crash on 18 August, 1945 and died at a Taipei hospital the same evening at 7 pm. The findings also state that on "August 22, he was cremated (at the Taipei Municipal crematorium)".
