By IANS
New Delhi : The Central Information Commission (CIC) Thursday asked the union home ministry to make public within three months various secret documents relating to the mystery-shrouded death of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose reportedly following a plane crash in 1945.
A full bench of the commission, headed by Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, directed the ministry to make public the documents, terming its apprehensions that disclosure of the documents would lead to unrest in the country, especially in West Bengal, as "facile hypothesis".
"No study has been conducted nor any analysis so far made about the sensitive nature of the documents and as such, it seems to be only a facile hypothesis that disclosure of the documents would lead to a serious law and order problem in the country, particularly in the state of West Bengal," the CIC said in its 20-page order.
The decision came in response to an application by Delhi resident Sayantan Dasgupta, a member of Delhi-based Mission Netaji, seeking information about documents relied on by two inquiry commissions which concluded that Netaji had died in an air crash in Taiwan.
Dasgupta had sought certified copies of all documents exhibited before the Shah Nawaz Khan Committee (1956) and the Justice G.D. Khosla Commission (1970-74), which probed Netaji's disappearance. However, the recent Mukherjee Commission had contradicted their findings.