The government has formed a high-profile panel to look into the possible declassification of the Bose files. The IB, PMO and MHA officers are believed to be part of the panel, say reports.

The move comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured family members of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that he will personally examine the case for the declassification of the Netaji files.

The prime minister gave this assurance to Surya Bose, the eldest son of Amiya Nath Bose, at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin.

Bose, the president of the Indo-German Association in Hamburg, had a half-hour meeting with Prime Minister Modi after a reception in Berlin late on Monday night where he presented a proposal on behalf of the Netaji family requesting the PM to release all the classified 'Netaji Files' held by the government.

Amid the growing controversy over declassified documents on Netaji, over eight lakh top secret files of Russian spy agencies, including the KGB, SMERSH and GRU, will be declassified and made available to the public.

Among the files dated 1917-1991 are said to be intelligence despatches of Siberian gulags (Russian camp for political prisoners), where Bose was suspected to have been imprisoned along with prisoners of war and political dissidents.