Won't accept Netaji's ashes without conducting DNA test: Grandnephew CK Bose

West Bengal BJP vice president and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose on Sunday said that his family will not accept the remains of Netaji without conducting a DNA test on them.

"Nation and most members of Bose family are not willing to accept ashes without DNA test. If proved to be Netaji's, nation's willing to accept," he said on Sunday.

His comments came following Netaji's daughter Anita Bose Pfaff appealed to the Indian and the Japanese governments to hand over the mortal remains.

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In October last year, while talking to ANI, Anita Bose Pffaf had said that "no government saw any gain in bringing Netaji's remains back" and kept out of the issue, fearing censure.

The ashes of what is believed to be that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose are preserved at Renkoji Temple in Japan in a small box.

"According to the reports from the Indian Mission in Tokyo, the ashes were preserved in a small box of about 9 inch by 6 inch which seem to be either made of tin or wood," Ministry of External Affairs Additional Secretary Ajai Choudhry had said, PTI reported.

According to the information available on the government files, he said the chief priest of Renkoji temple had written to then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru November 23, 1953 that he had been keeping the ashes of Netaji since September 18, 1945.

The disappearance of Netaji 70 years ago still remains a mystery with two Commissions of Inquiry concluding that he had died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, while a third probe panel, headed by Justice MK Mukherjee, had contested it and suggested that Bose had survived the crash.