66 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : দশম খন্ড At dawn on 9" November, attacked with a PI of acting Sub Maj Fakhruddin and a PI of Lt Kumud of 2 Rajput on en position at village South Berabaria and recaptured my lost PI position of Hav Shaheed. The en neither did burry the dead bodies of their troops nor did burry those of ours. We found 15 rotten dead bodies lying scatteredly all over; the files, insects and the ants were eating them. Not a single face could be identified as they were already eaten up by the insects. In the pocket of one of the en dead bodies was found the small holy Quran and a piece of paper in which written “2484547 Sep Mushtaque Ahmed”. En left many arms, ammos, stores and eqpts behind while running away; in one of the bucket was written 11 Punjab. En Attacked with 3 Sabre Jets on our position and Parshuram at 1530 hrs on 9" November, straffed and bombed with napalm. One of my Sep got hit and wounded and a Sep of allied force (Maj Shahid’s coy) got hit and died on the spot and many civs died and houses were burnt. On 10" November, en had been launching attk with bns from Chitalia and Kaptan bazar, but could not move us from posm at all. 4 Sabre jets attacked again today at 1530 hrs and Inf on the ground. In the evening about a bn str attacked on our def from Chitalia on the right, Satkuchia in front and Guthuma on the left, but failed. The Almighty Allah was with us. En suffered hycas and made a clean break of about 2-3 miles. Next morning one of the PAF CESNA appeared and started flying over our positions at a high altitude and started bringing precise arty fire on us. En left Guthuma BOP on 12 November which I occupied then and there. Lt. Col Dutt Co 2 Rajput and Maj Rafiq my Sector Comd paid a visit in the front line in our positions and gave us much cheer. I brought my Coys a mile ahead from Salia Dighi the previous position and deployed now in a better place. All the Ops Comds were called for a conference in Bde HQ at Belonia. Capt (now Maj) Zafar Imam also there, we embraced each other because of the successful joint operation. MajGen Hira was pleased very much and cheered us for the same. We were orderd to adv infront on our present axis rd Belonia-Chagalnaya so far we could do easily. We advanced for about another 2 miles upto a gen line Motaikhal and got resisted by en strong positions at Ketranga on my right, Kaptan bazar in front and Baghmara on my left. Attened another conference at Bde HQ on 19" November. Now we came under a new 181 Bde under Brig Anand Sourp. A new bri 6 Jat was attached with my coys whos CO was Lt Cot Hasabnis. We ordered make a 2" rq- block south of Mohammadpur through Khejuria BOP, about 9 miles south of Belonia, with my coys and 6 Jat. En had been using fa Arty against us. We assaulted an en position at a village named Jagatpur, where 10 Razakars and 12 ORs of 15 Baluch surrendered. One of the Naik of 6 Jat died in that operation. Most of the ens from Chitalia, Kaptan bazar, Mohammadpur and Khejuria were encircled and made to surrender. Allied PT. 76 amphibious tos were used in our support on 24" November. En gave a strong opposition at Amjadhat and Chandgazi bazaar. We kept our momentum and reached upto Mridhyar bazar on 25" November. One of the very good civ helper and guide Mr. Abdul Quader Majumder of Chagalnaiya, who had been helping us throughout, joined me in front battle now. En started running away and concentration around Gangadhar bazar, Rezumia br and Fenny.
