The people of India, and of the world, did not put their slightest belief in the news of Netaji's death. Mass demand rose from all comers for enquiry by a commission. The new Government of independent India virtually rejected the demand officially. But the thrust of mass action compelled the Prime Minister Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru to declare the formation of an Inquiry Committee, on 5 April 1956, headed by Shah Nawaj Khan, one of Netaji's last five lieutenants. The Committee handed over its report to the Prime Minister on 3 August 1956. The report supported the official version about Netaji's disappearance, i.e. death, but the people of the country completely discarded the view and branded the view of the Committee as motivated and pre-determined. The Government got afraid to place the report in the lower house of the Parliament. And the mass dissatisfaction laid all over the country.

The Government found no other way but to form another Commission of Enquiry, on 11 July 1970, headed by retired Chief Justice of Punjab High Court G. D. Khosla. The Commission submitted its report on 30 June 1974, which was a similar copy of the earlier, and full of political intentions. It fell into the same way that happened to the earlier Committee, by distrust and rejection. Ultimately, the then Prime Minister of India Mr. Morarji Desai, participating in a debate in Parliament, declared that, 'reasonable doubts have been cast on the correctness of the conclusions reached in the two reports and various important contradictions in the testimony of witnesses have been noticed. Some further contemporary official documentary records have also become available. In the light of these doubts and contradictions and those records, Government find it difficult to accept that the earlier conclusions are decisive. At the same time, Government feels that no useful purpose would be served by having further enquiry.'