I have taken great pains to document every report and every research on Netaji's death these 25 years. I have recorded these in my book Untainted Subhas, which was published in 1999.

In all these reports there are various factors which clearly suggest that Netaji Subhas Bose did not die in the air crash on August 18, 1945. These factors are:

	The Taihoku Airport has no record of the arrival, departure or crash of the plane
	Besides the jewellery that was retrieved from the crash site, little else of Subhas Bose's personal effects was obtained
	The Japanese government presented five photographs of Bose and the fallen plane. In all the photos, the body claimed to be Subhas' is covered with a white cloth. The photos of the plane wreckage also do not seem to belong to an aircraft that has fallen from 20-30 ft. In the photo, the plane appears to have gone completely to pieces
	The hospital, where Bose was supposedly treated, has no record of the admit-time, case history or the time of death
	In various testimonies given by the doctors, they have contradicted themselves and each other on the type of treatment given to Bose
	Netaji was supposedly cremated with the white cloth still covering him
	A leader of Bose's stature and eminence was "given a hurried cremation in the presence of six military officers without any military honours". Even after the cremation, his remains were disposed of in great hurry
	The news of his death was broadcast after five days that too over a non-government radio channel

All these factors raise many doubts, most of which are difficult to reconcile by any stretch of imagination