According to Ray, the first British investigation into the crash was led T S Finney, a superintendent of police in colonial India, in 1945. “They categorically confirmed Bose had died as a result of an air tragedy,” the book states. On December 31, 1945, the British Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre in India submitted its report after interviewing Col Habibur Rehman, Netaji’s aide-de-camp who survived the crash. All reached the conclusion that Bose died as a result of a plane crash, the author says. Bose’s death in the plane crash has been a subject of debate for decades, but his daughter believes that he perished and told Hindustan Times previously that all theories that he survived were “asinine”.

Source: Hindustan Times February 04, 2018 13:30 UTC