Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 19 (ANI): Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grandnephew, Chandra Kumar Bose, has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Calcutta High Court demanding the “action of Government of India towards current unfettered distortions and misinformation in the literature and film of the Indian freedom movement.”Speaking to ANI, Bose stated, “Modi government declassified secret documents in 2016-17. After this, we found reports which established that Netaji Bose sacrificed his life on August 18, 1945. But certain people are trying to make business by distorting history stating that he survived an air crash.”A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed on the Calcutta High Court on Friday, searching for pressing remedial motion by the Central authorities in the direction of “current, unfettered distortions and misinformation in literature and film of the history of the Indian freedom movement”.
The plea additionally requires extra cautious verification of the historic authenticity and veracity of occasions depicted in movies, books and different publications, said a press launch on Friday.
The petitioners expressed concern over the “adverse treatment meted out to the iconic leader Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose”, who, they stated, shouldn’t be a personality out of mythology or fiction that his life and legacy could be open to the creativeness and fantasy of a story-teller and rumour-monger.
“Netaji lived and served the country in one of the most turbulent times in the history of the sub-continent. His contributions to and actions during the freedom struggle have had a paramount and positive influence in building a free India,” the petitioners stated, as per the discharge.
The petitioners additionally known as on the Central authorities to represent a staff of “eminent representatives (including relatives)” to deliver again Netaji’s mortal stays from their present resting place — the Renkoji Temple within the Japanese capital Tokyo.
The spokesperson for the petitioners and Netaji’s grandnephew, Chandra Kumar Bose, stated it was time for the Central authorities to place an finish to fantasies and conspiracy theories surrounding the life and dying of Bose, starting with a re-affirmation of his demise in an air crash in Taiwan in August 1945, the discharge said. (ANI)