'Nirad's hand in Sarat arrest is a fib'

Nirads hand in Sarat arrest is a fib
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Faridabad (PTI): The latest claim by some of Netaji's descendants that renowned writer Nirad C Chaudhuri had a role in the arrest of Sarat Chandra...

fbFaridabad (PTI): The latest claim by some of Netaji's descendants that renowned writer Nirad C Chaudhuri had a role in the arrest of Sarat Chandra Bose, Subhas Chandra Bose's elder brother, has been rubbished by the author's son Dhruva N Chaudhuri. Commenting on the recent claims of Chandra Kumar Bose and his sister Madhuri Bose, siblings of Sarat Bose's son Amiya Nath Bose that Nirad had associations with the British intelligence in the run-up to Sarat's arrest on December 11, 1941, Chaudhuri told PTI that "I don't know why this issue has been raked up. I have a feeling and it is my conjecture that they did it against the running of Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata and to get political mileage as a grand-nephew of Netaji, since Chandra Bose is a member of Forward Bloc. This is purely to get political mileage". Contesting Chandra Bose's statement that the CBI has a file on Nirad C Chaudhuri, D N Chaudhuri asks "how does he know that there is a file on my father with the CBI? Does he have any proof? Everything he says is based on hearsay. "There may be file, my father was an ardent nationalist and Gandhian and the British used to have files on everybody who had such inclinations and probably it came to light when he was being confirmed with the All India Radio (AIR). But, without seeing it, how can anyone bring such allegations?" "There is no harm in bringing the facts out. But saying that my father was passing on information about Sarat Bose to the British, that he was traitor, that he had quit his job as Sarat Bose's secretary a day before Bose's arrest on December 11, 1941, are personal attacks. He (Chandra Bose) has to withdraw his words. Whatever my father did are all well documented in his own books as well as his memoirs". Chaudhary said Nirad C Chaudhuri used to broadcast from AIR since early 1937 and when he was appointed as secretary to Sarat Bose, his father had asked Sarat if he had any problem with that. Sarat Bose had no issues, he said.
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