Trimool seeks probe into 'destroyed' Netaji files

Kolkata, March 30: With the latest set of declassified files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose revealing that certain documents and a file were destroyed in 1972 when the Congress was in power at the centre, the Trimool Congress on Wednesday sought a probe into the matter. PMO documents concerning the Justice Mukherjee Commission revealed that certain files and documents including a proposal to bring Netaji’s ashes from Tokyo and keep them at a memorial were either “destroyed” or “not traceable”. According to a PMO communication dated September 19, 2000 and declassified on Tuesday: “One file 12(226)/56-PM has been destroyed on 6.3.1972. “Certain documents of file 23(156)/51-PM have been destroyed. “And one file proposal to bring Netaji’s ashes from Tokyo and to put up in a memorial in front of the Red Fort is not readily traceable.”