Mrs. Rashid had given refuge to a number of persons. When they twice raided the house, both Mr. Marghub and Mrs. Rashid saw two Indian soldiers in olive green uniform (which is Indian army's official uniform) backing them up. On her part Mrs. Hasan showed tremendous courage by refusing to surrender innocent people to armed miscreants who wanted to kill them".
"The miscreants also disclosed to her that her husband had been abducted by them and that if she parted with the 16 persons to whom she was giving shelter her husband would be set free". "But she said if they wanted to take the 16 persons to shoot them they better kill her first".
Three Radio Engineers Brought from India
"Mr. Saifullah told me that when the radio transmitter went dead, the Indian Army brought three radio engineers from India to set it right in preparation for use on possible take-over of the town. The engineers located the defect which was due to absence of crystal, an essential part of transmitter".
"The Indian engineers brought their own crystal from Calcutta but it did not fit in, and as they were trying another replacement the Pakistan Army secured the town, forcing them to flee. Mr. Saifullah said that during an unguarded moment. One of the engineers gave his name as Shakti Dev of the AIR".
"During my visit to The Rajshahi railway station, three Watch and Ward officials showed me some places which according to them, the Sikh soldiers of the Indian Army had occupied for sometime in a bid to take over the station".
"Some officers of the district administration told me that the Indian Army troops had even brought with them some medical doctors one of them being a lady doctor"
"From the accounts gathered from different responsible quarters I worked out that in all between 4,000 and 5,000 armed Indian infiltrator had visited Rajshahi to help the rebels and secessionists."
Rebels Establish link With Calcutta
Concrete evidence of India's role from the very beginning of the East Pakistan crisis is now available through Indian as well as foreign news media.
In fact as early as 29 March 1971, an Indian correspondent confirmed in a report from Calcutta that the rebels (the so-called 'Liberation forces) had established links with India. The correspondent, according to the daily Indian Express Bombay, “quoted the commander of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Liberation force in Kushtia as saying that immediately after the two units of the alien Army were either killed or withdrawn from Kushtia, bordering Nadia district, the local commander, who preferred to remain unnamed, established a telephone link with Calcutta. He first spoke to Mr. Ajoy Mukherjee, who will be heading the new West Bengal Government later in the week, and
