Govt not to probe Netaji snoop files

New Delhi: Amidst a rag

ing controversy over reports of surveillance on family members of Netaji

Subhas Chandra Bose during the Nehru era, the government on Tuesday

said it has no plans to conduct any probe into

such reports.

Amidst a raging controversy over reports of surveillance on the family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose during the Nehru era, the government on Tuesday said it has no plans to conduct any probe into such reports.

“There is no proposal to probe into the spying as referred to in the question,” minister of state for home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

He was replying to a written question by M. Udhayakumar and Sunil Kumar Singh whether the government has set up any inquiry committee or commission to investigate the spying incidents.

The minister further said a large number of files relating to Netaji, including those relating to Khosla Commission and Mukherjee Commission, have been already declassified and sent to the National Archives of India.

There are, however, some classified files with the Central government and some files are with the West Bengal government relating to Bose, Mr Chaudhary said.

A controversy had recently broken out following reports that Netaji’s family was kept under surveillance by the Intelligence Bureau for 20 years, much of it during the tenure of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The government had then said that it is reviewing whether more files can be de- classified.