Calcutta Disturbances Commission of Enquiry. Record of Proceedings (14th February to 26th February 1947) Minutes of Evidence

Which was the first day ? Was this the first day and the it broke out again on the 19th ?/On the 17th we did not get any information about this fire. [...] I hastened to the spot with some of the unarmed men in my lorry and found that the said Eating House had already been looted and its furniture and other things were set on fire on the street. [...] From there I went to the crossing of Beadon Street and Central Avenue with the same force in the lorry and there found sonie people setting fire to some 40 furniture on the street in front of premises No. [...] I arrived at the crossing of B. K. Paul Avenue and Grey Street to the North. of which I found heaps of (lead bodies of Muslim men, women and 1 started picking up the injured men, women and children in the lorry and sending them to hospital. [...] I went there in the lorry with armed and unarmed men quickly and leaving the lorry on l3eadon Street in charge of the driver and an armed man went into Ram Chand Ghosh Lane with rest of the party.