Documents reveal Nehru govt shared information on Netaji's family with MI5

Two recently declassified files from the West Bengal government’s intelligence branch, which were sent to the Intelligence Bureau, showed that several members of Bose's family were kept under surveillance between 1948 and 1968. The documents on the sharing of information between the IB and MI5 – which were found in Britain’s National Archives by Anuj Dhar, the author of "India’s Biggest Cover-Up", a book that looks at the mystery surrounding Netaji’s reported death in a 1945 plane crash – show Indian sleuths passed on information gleaned from the letters of Bose’s kin to their British counterparts. An-archival-image-of-Netaji-Subhas-Chandra-Bose-HT-File-Photo The row over previous Congress governments snooping on the family of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has taken a new turn with declassified British and Indian documents showing that the results of the surveillance were shared with Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency.Two recently declassified files from the West Bengal government’s intelligence branch, which were sent to the Intelligence Bureau, showed that several members of Bose's family were kept under surveillance between 1948 and 1968. Jawaharlal Nehru was the prime minister during 1947-64 and the IB reported directly to him.A war of words has erupted between the Congress and BJP over the revelations that successive Congress governments, and the Congress has accused the NDA government of unleashing a "systematic and sinister propaganda of selective leaks and half truths" to malign Nehru.The documents on the sharing of information between the IB and MI5 – which were found in Britain’s National Archives by Anuj Dhar, the author of "India’s Biggest Cover-Up", a book that looks at the mystery surrounding Netaji’s reported death in a 1945 plane crash – show Indian sleuths passed on information gleaned from the letters of Bose’s kin to their British counterparts. Nehru wrote.The then Indian Ambassador in Japan, CS Jha, responded that there was no information of Amiya Bose "having indulged in any undesirable activities".Another note from the British National Archives shows that the IB shared with MI5 the contents of a letter written in 1947 by Netaji’s close aide AC Nambiar, then based in Switzerland, to Amiya Bose in Kolkata.