Ashok Rai says that as a boy he saw Subhas Bose being taken towards a no-man's land adjoining Quetta, where the Britishers sent all hardened criminals. He says, he had a good hard look at Bose, as the Black Ford car in which the leader was travelling came to a halt outside the house where Rai stayed.

"Bose was squeezed between four uniformed men on the back seat of the car. His cap was on his lap and he looked very serious...".

Quetta was a British military base and refuelling stopover point for fighter crafts on long-distance missions. (Incidentally, Quetta, at that time, also shared borders with Russian-held territories.)

www.hindustantimes.com also has other documents which include the International Political Intelligence Report and British Intelligence reports which throw up indicators to Bose's presence in Russia.

Col Lakshmi Sehgal deposition before the Mukherjee Commission is also important in the context. She said that in her last meeting with the Azad Hind cabinet in Mamyo, Burma, Netaji was seriously considering shifting his government's base to Russia. In fact, Hindustan Times also has Bose's letter to Soviet Ambassador in Tokyo, Jacob Malik, seeking Russia's support to force the British out of India.