Kolkata: West Bengal government on Friday declassified 64 files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose which might throw some light on his mysterious disappearance.
The files containing 12,744 pages were declassified in the presence of his family members who have been demanding that information on Bose, kept confidential till now, should be made public.
The files were displayed in glass cascades in Kolkata Police Museum here and they would be made accessible to the public from Monday.
Of the 64 files, 55 were with Kolkata Police while another nine were with the state police.
A DVD containing the files in digitised format was handed over to the family members of Netaji.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who visited the police museum,
tweeted, “We made a beginning. The people should know the truth.”
Welcoming the declassification of the files, Chandra Bose — Netaji’s grandnephew — said, “It is a correct step. Now it is the duty of the central government to declassify 130 files it has with it.”
