RAW, IB, Union home ministry and PMO officials will be part of the panel.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew, Surya Bose, in Berlin and promised to examine the request for declassification of all files related to events since his death or disappearance in Taiwan on August 18, 1945.
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The meeting late on Monday between Modi and Surya, who has a software consultancy business in Hamburg and is president of the Indo-German Association, lasted for over half-an-hour, and is significant in the light of recent disclosures of the Nehru administration's surveillance on Netaji's kin.
Surya is the grandson of Netaji's elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose, and son of Amiya Nath Bose, who too was among those under watch.
"I gave the PM a few points in writing, including the issue of surveillance on the family so that the truth comes out," Surya said. He said he impressed on Modi that India as a nation was strong enough to face the truth, even if it was unpalatable.
"The declassified information needn't paint a glorious picture of Netaji. It may say something negative. In all probability, it will. We must not shirk from the truth even if it adversely affects Netaji's image. The family is ready to face it," he said.
Congress and BJP governments have all along turned down demands for declassification of the file, saying it could trigger internal disturbance and affect relations with certain other countries.
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