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Ques 20: It is presumed that in your above quoted
statement you referred to the Shah Nawaz Committee of Inquiry
and the Khosla Commission of Inquiry. Is it correct?
Ans. Yes.
Ques 21: Did you depose or appear of file any affidavit/
petition before the aforesaid earlier Committee and Commission
of Inquiry?
Ans. No, I did neither depose nor file any affidavit or petition
before the said Committee and Commission.
Ques 22: Were you summoned as a witness by the said
Committee and the Commission of Inquiry?
Ans. No.
Ques 23: Do you possess any documents or records relating
to the alleged death of Netaji in the plane crash at Taipei?
Ans. No.
Ques 24: Do you have in your possession and/or know
about the existence of any such documents, records etc., as
may prove that Netaji died in the alleged plane crash and
that the ashes kept in the temple in Japan are ashes of Netaji?
Ans. No.
Ques 25: You know the points of Inquiry of this Commission.
Have you got anything more to say relating to those points?
Ans. No.
Cross Examination by Sri Subroto Bose -(Deponent No 27)
Ques 26: I would bring to your notice of the first
three lines of the news item of Nirmalaya Mikhopadhyaya in
the Ananda Bazar Patrika dated December 2000. He has reported
that you were then in Rangoon and so, like other persons you
also did not believe the news of Netaji's death. He had further
written that initially what was unbelievable to you, within
a day or two you came to know that it was true. Is it correct?
Ans. No, this report is not fully correct. It is that I did
not believe the news of his death when I heard about it from
Radio broadcast. It is not correct to say that within a day
or two I came to know that the news was true. I did not believe
the news until I met and talked to Habib-ur-Rahman in India
(Relevant portion is marked as Exhibit 22/3).
Ques 27: Dr. Sehgal, you are the author of this book
titled "A
REVOLUTIONARY LIFE - Memories of a political activist".
Is it correct?
Ans.Yes. I am the author of this book (Exhibit 24).
Ques 28: In this book (Exhibit 24), first published
in 1937, you have stated, "Two days after I moved in,
we heard the news that Netaji had been killed in an air crash
while flying from Saigon to Japan. We took the news very coolly
as we were convince it was incorrect, and that Netaji himself
had put it out to enable him to escape. This feeling persisted
for several years.In fact it was only when Netaji did not
appear even after independence then. I accepted he was no
more. Even today the circumstances of the air crash remain
in doubt. The fact that Col. Habib-ur-Rahman never saw his
body and was only given the urn supposedly containing his
ashes added to the suspicions." (Pages 108-109 of the
book). Have you got anything to say about your own writings
in this book?
Ans. This book (Exhibit 24) was in fact published in
1997, but I had prepared the manuscript in the 1950s when
I still believed that Netaji was not dead. The manuscript
was lying with me for want of a publisher. In 1995/1996 the
publishers "Kali for women" approached me. I gave
them the manuscript without any alterations or updating or
further editing. It is not correct to say that at the time
of publication of the book I was still under the belief that
Netaji had not died in the plane crash. (Relevant portions
at pages at 108-109 of the book are marked as exhibit 24/1).
Ques 29: Have you read the 'DISSENTIENT REPORT' submitted
by late Suresh Chandra Bose, a member of the Shah Nawaz Committee
of Inquiry, where in he stated that Netaji had not died in
the alleged plane crash?
Ans. No, I have not read that report.
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