INA Defence Committee
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The INA Defence Committee, later the INA Defence and Relief Committee, was a committee established by the
INA trials
. Additional responsibilities of the committee also came to be the co-ordination of information on INA troops held captive, as well as arranging for relief for troops after the war.
The committee declared the formation of the Congress' defence team for the INA and included famous lawyers of the time, including Bhulabhai Desai, Asaf Ali, Jawaharlal Nehru and as The British insisted that this was an Army Court Martial, Lt. Col Horilal Varma Bar at law and Prime minister of the state of Rampur was selected to head the defense Committee.
See also
- Indian National Army
- INA trials, the courts-martial of INA officers at Delhi that began in late 1945.
- INA trial.
- Azad Hind Govt.
- Indian National Congress
References
- Letter from members of the Indian National Army Defence Committee to the Viceroy, 15 Oct 1945.The British Library. Accessed 12/07/07 Archived 14 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine