Netaji kin agree to DNA test

[ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2002 ]

KOLKATA: Some members of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's family have agreed to give their blood samples to the Mukherjee Commission that is inquiring into the disappearance of the national leader.

A DNA test will be conducted on the blood samples and matched with that of the specimens collected by the commission from a house in Faizabad where a sanyasi called Gumnami Baba lived. Some people believe that the sanyasi was Netaji in disguise.

Among the items collected by the commission is a tooth on which the DNA test will also be done.

Meanwhile, the commission has also received photographs of the insides of the casket believed to contain the ashes of Netaji. The casket is preserved in the Renkoji Temple of Japan.

Apart from ashes, the photographs also show teeth, portions of the jaw and skull. The commission wants to conduct DNA tests on these, too.

Some handwritings of Gumnami Baba had been sent to the government examiner of questioned documents, Bureau of Police Research and Development, of the Centre, to be compared with original letters of Netaji.

The findings have already reached the commission. However, it will not go through the findings before the handwritings are examined by two more experts.

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