Times
of India: New Delhi: Wednesday, 06 May 2015.
In a puzzling
move the ministry of home affairs has marked a RTI query seeking information on
the Netaji snooping scandal as "secret" before dispatching it to the
Intelligence Bureau (IB) for a response. Equally bizarre was the fact that a
copy of the communication marked "secret" was sent to the applicant
Anuj Dhar.
Recently,
declassified documents have revealed that the Indian government under late PM
Jawaharlal Nehru spied on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's family members. Author
Anuj Dhar, who has researched widely on Netaji, had in this context sought
information related to the "surveillance" by IB under the RTI act.
Dhar had
sought to know who had authorized the snooping on Netaji's family members and
for what purpose. He has also sought information related to Netaji Research
Bureau and the family members including Emilie Schenkl, Anita Pfaff, Sarat
Bose, Suresh Bose, Amiya Nath Bose, Subrata Bose, Dwijindra Nath Bose, Sisir
Bose, Krishna Bose and Prof Sugata Bose. He had also asked for communication
between an IB official S B Shetty and K M Bourne from the UK's MI5 that
indicated that India had shared intelligence on Bose with UK.
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