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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in a plane crash, reports 60-Year-Old Japanese document

A Classified Document Of Japanese Government On Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Death Made The Details Public On Thursday That The Legendary Freedom Fighter Died In A Plane Crash In Taiwan On August 18, 1945, Backing The Official Version.

News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Prakhar Sharma | Updated on: 02 Sep 2016, 08:18:22 AM

New Delhi :

A classified document of Japanese government on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death made the details public on Thursday that the legendary freedom fighter died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, backing the official version. 

Bosefiles.info, a UK website set up to document evidence on the circumstances surrounding Netaji's death, According to website, 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 seven-page report in Japanese and a 10-page translation in English concludes that Netaji met with an air crash on 18 August, 1945 and died at a Taipei hospital the same evening. 

"Immediately after taking off, the airplane in which he rode fell to the ground, and he was wounded," the report notes in its 'Outline of the result of the investigation'.

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First Published : 02 Sep 2016, 08:10:00 AM

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