"I solemnly affirm and state on oath that thereafter Shri Jawaharlal Nehru gave me four papers from his writing pad to make on the typewriter four copies of a letter, which he would dictate to me on typewriter with which I also complied. The contents of the letter as far as I could remember were as follows:

"To Mr. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of Britain 10 Downing Street, London.

Dear Mr. Attlee,

I understand from a reliable source that Subhas Chandra Bose, your war criminal has been allowed to enter Russian territory by Stalin. This is clear treachery and a betrayal of faith by the Russians. As Russia has been an ally of the British Americans it should not have been done. Please take not of it and do what you consider proper and fir.

Yours sincerely,
Jawaharlal Nehru"

On January 6, 1946, Mahatma Gandhi in a workers, meeting at Contai in West bengal said, "I believe Subhas Bose is still alive and is hiding somewhere".

The late Amrit Lal Seth, former editor of the Gujarati daily Janambhoomi who accompanied Nehru during his visit to Singapore in March, 1946, told late Sarat Chandra Bose, immediately after his return from Singapore, that Panditji was warned by Lord Louis Mountbatten that according to his report, Bose did not die in the alleged air crash and if Nehru played up too high the legends of Bose and demands for the re-absorption of INA into the Indian army, he would be taking the risk of presenting India on a platter when Bose reappeared.

Many years later Mountbatten had publicly stated how he was able to persuade Nehru not to place a wreath at the INA memorial in Singapore. He also said why the INA was a "dangerous" force and should not be absorbed in the Indian Army of Free India. On 1.3.1946, a few days before Nehru's arrival in Singapore, Major C. Young, head of Intelligence in Mountbatten's staff, informed the Intelligence Bureau, New Delhi, about "discrepancies" in Netaji's "death story".

3. British Intelligence submitted a secret report to Wavell's Government on April 8, 1946 which noted that probably Bose reached Russian territory and that Gandhi and Nehru also received some secret communications from him. This report was found in the documents submitted before the Shah Nawaz Committee (No.10/Misc./INA, pages 38, 39) which noted :

"Gandhiji stated publicly at the beginning of January (1946) that he believed that Bose was alive and was hiding, ascribing this to his inner voice. The Congressmen believe that Ganhiji's inner voice is really secret information which he received. There is, however, secret information which says that Nehru received a letter from Bose saying that he was in Russia and that he wanted to escape to India. The information alleges that Gandhiji and Sarat Bose are those who were aware of this. It is probably that the letter arrived about the time Gandhiji made his public statement. In January Sarat Bose is also reported to have said that he was convinced that his brother was alive…."

"……..On 7 January, 1946 the Russian paper Pravda denied in strong terms that Bose was in Russia. Before this, however, Ghilazi Malang had been coupling with a live Bose in Russia and in December (1945) a report said that the Governor of Afghan province, Khost, has been informed by the Russian Ambassador in Kabul that there are many Congress refugees in Moscow and Bose was included in their number.