Subhash Bose not killed in plane crash: Judge

Bose, also known as "Netaji" (leader), was president of the Congress party and founded the Indian National Army (INA) to fight British colonial forces.

He led a failed attack on colonial India from the tiny northeastern state of Nagaland and later reportedly died in a plane crash at Taihoku airport in Taiwan.

But former Supreme Court judge, Manoj Mukherjee, who was appointed by the government to conduct an inquiry into Bose's disappearance, said "there is no record" that Bose was killed in the plane crash on August 18, 1945.

At least two earlier commissions have held that the freedom fighter died in the accident. The new commission was appointed a couple of years ago after Bose supporters demanded the case be reopened.

"The Taiwanese government has shown me documents that there was no record of (a) plane crash in Taiwan between August 14 and September 20, 1945," Mukherjee, who recently visited Taiwan, told AFP.