Experts contest ex-SC judge remark that monk was Bose
A retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Manoj Kumar Mukherjee’s, controversial remark on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Justice Mukherjee, who headed the one man commission instituted in 1999 to look into the controversy surrounding the reported death of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1945, told a documentary maker off the record that he firmly believed that the anonymous monk of Faizabad was Bose.
The interviewer Amlankushum Ghosh, who was interacting with the Justice for his documentary “Bose, Black Box of History” , recorded it and later aired it. Since then, Justice Mukherjee has been feeling embarrassed because in his report submitted in 2005 he had ruled out any possibility of the Gumnami Baba being Bose. Also, he had rejected the Taipei Plane Crash theory of Bose’s death.
“I have burnt my fingers and I am feeling humiliated. I can tell you, this is unethical and illegal too,” he told TSI. “I still stand by my report. What I told the documentary maker was my hunch,” he added.
Some members of Bose’s family are fiercely contesting his statement. Krishna Bose, former Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament (MP) and chief of the Netaji Research Bureau, said the calligraphic experts have rejected Gumnami Baba theory after careful examination of both of their handwritings. Even, DNA report of five Bose family members didn’t match up with the Baba.
Researcher Purabi Roy is incensed. After doing extensive research and travelling to the UK and Russia, she had revealed that Bose in his last days was confined at the concentration camp in Siberia during the Stalin era. Talking to TSI, she said: “I was not initially interested in this commission. It was the judge who requested me to depose. Gumnami Baba theory was discussed in details. But it was rejected after probe. Now, if a judge suddenly comes out announcing his ‘personal firm belief’ on such a sensitive issue which is related to the country’s pride and freedom movement, is simply unacceptable”.
Documentary maker Ghosh is not perturbed. Defending his action, he said: “It may be unethical, but considering what Justice Mukherjee told me is of national importance, I can’t accept this as mere private chat.” His film will be screened on February 18 in Kolkata.
A retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Manoj Kumar Mukherjee’s, controversial remark on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Justice Mukherjee, who headed the one man commission instituted in 1999 to look into the controversy surrounding the reported death of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1945, told a documentary maker off the record that he firmly believed that the anonymous monk of Faizabad was Bose.
The interviewer Amlankushum Ghosh, who was interacting with the Justice for his documentary “Bose, Black Box of History” , recorded it and later aired it. Since then, Justice Mukherjee has been feeling embarrassed because in his report submitted in 2005 he had ruled out any possibility of the Gumnami Baba being Bose. Also, he had rejected the Taipei Plane Crash theory of Bose’s death.
“I have burnt my fingers and I am feeling humiliated. I can tell you, this is unethical and illegal too,” he told TSI. “I still stand by my report. What I told the documentary maker was my hunch,” he added.
Some members of Bose’s family are fiercely contesting his statement. Krishna Bose, former Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament (MP) and chief of the Netaji Research Bureau, said the calligraphic experts have rejected Gumnami Baba theory after careful examination of both of their handwritings. Even, DNA report of five Bose family members didn’t match up with the Baba.
Researcher Purabi Roy is incensed. After doing extensive research and travelling to the UK and Russia, she had revealed that Bose in his last days was confined at the concentration camp in Siberia during the Stalin era. Talking to TSI, she said: “I was not initially interested in this commission. It was the judge who requested me to depose. Gumnami Baba theory was discussed in details. But it was rejected after probe. Now, if a judge suddenly comes out announcing his ‘personal firm belief’ on such a sensitive issue which is related to the country’s pride and freedom movement, is simply unacceptable”.
Documentary maker Ghosh is not perturbed. Defending his action, he said: “It may be unethical, but considering what Justice Mukherjee told me is of national importance, I can’t accept this as mere private chat.” His film will be screened on February 18 in Kolkata.
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