The Supreme Court has asked Anita Bose Pfaff, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter, to file a petition in her own name to bring her father's ashes from Japan's Renkoji temple to India.
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi declined to entertain a petition filed by Netaji's grandnephew Ashish Ray, citing reported differences within the Bose family over the circumstances of the leader's death and the authenticity of the ashes.
The court observed that a 'direct heir' must approach the court, and Pfaff, who has been urging the Indian government to bring her father's remains back to India, will have to come forward herself.
Pfaff, an economist based in Austria, has repeatedly appealed to the Indian government to bring Netaji's ashes back from Renkoji temple in Tokyo, where they have been preserved since 1945.
