Forgotten Wars
“In India the issue of the INA still rankled with the British, even though all now realized that their tenure in the subcontinent was in its final stages. Wavell’s original 7,600 ‘blacks’ – men guilty of particularly treasonable or brutal acts – had been reduced by 5,500 who had been dismissed from the service with forfeiture of pay and allowances. Despite the bad publicity of the 1945 trials, in early 1946 it was still intended to bring 600 ‘blacks’ to trial. This proved hopelessly optimistic. ...The military lawyers found the case against many of them difficult to prove. Continuous Congress agitation against the trials sapped Wavell’s and Auchinleck’s determination to proceed with them. The number proposed for trial dropped steadily, first to 300, then to fewer than 100. Finally, twenty were brought to trial in the Delhi Red Fort on charges of gross brutality. Of these, twelve were sentenced to long prison terms. In January 1947 Sarat Bose began one final push to get all the men released.MoreLess
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