Justice (retired) Vishnu Sahai, who presented his report on the personality of Gumnami Baba, the Faizabad plain who was accepted by many to be Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, to UP Representative Smash Naik on Tuesday, revealed to TOI that a “larger part of witnesses who ousted before the commission said that Gumnami Baba was Netaji.”
Justice Sahai commission was initiated in June a year ago by the then Samajwadi Gathering government, following an Allahabad high court mandate. The bearing came following a PIL where the applicant guaranteed that the hermitic Gumnami Baba was Subhash Chandra Bose.
“The essential wellspring of proof for the commission were the witnesses who either showed up before me face to face or whose sworn statements were dealt with by me as articulations. A dominant part of the witnesses said Gumnami Baba was Netaji or may have been Netaji. A few witnesses likewise said he was not,” Equity Sahai, who additionally headed the investigation into Muzaffarnagar uproars of 2013, told TOI in an elite meeting a day after he presented his 347-page report.
Equity Sahai, – who did not uncover the discoveries of the report, said that the progression of time between Gumnami Baba’s passing and the commission hearing witnesses represented a major test.
“Gumnami Baba passed on in 1985 and witnesses gave their announcements in 2016 and 2017, a period slack of more than three decades. It is common that with section of time, their memory darkened and, on occasion, they were inclined to envision realities and occasions, about which they removed,” said Equity Sahai.
Another perspective that he needed to manage while assessing statements was the solid conviction that many witnesses held about Gumnami Baba’s personality.
“The command of the commission was to discover the personality of Gumnami Baba. Lion’s share of the witnesses started with the commence that Gumnami Baba was in reality Netaji. Their approach was that, on the off chance that the commission did not concur with their start, at exactly that point should it endeavor to discover the character of Gumnami Baba. At the end of the day, they put things in the wrong order,” he said.
Read Full Interview, Click Here
Reference-
Times Of India