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FROM:

THE HON'BLE Mr. JUSTICE ELLIS.
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE.
DACCA.

To:

THE CHIEF SECRETARY.
To THE GOVERNMENT OF EAST BENGAL.
DACCA
Dated Dacca, the 27th May. 1952

Sir.

 I have the honour to submit herewith, my report on the Firing by the Police at Dacca on the 21st of February, 1952. in pursuance of Notification No 943PL. dated the 13th March, 1952, published in the Dacca Gazelle. Extraordinary, dated the 13th March, 1952.

I have the honour to be.
Sir.
Your most obedient servant,
TH. ELLIS

Report of the Enquiry into the FIRING BY THE POLICE AT DACCA on

the 21" February, 1952, in pursuance of Notification No. 943PL,, dated the 13th March. 1952. published in the Dacca Gazette, Extraordinary, dated the 13th March, 1952, by the Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ellis of the High Court of Judicature at DACCA.

 I. On the 31sc of January. 1952. a Committee styled the “All-Party Committee of Action" was formed in order to direct the agitation which was being carried on in East Bengal for the inclusion of Bengali as a State Language. This Committee claimed to guide and control the agitation and announced through the medium of the Press that a mammoth demonstration would be staged in Dacca on the 21st of February. 1952 and called for a complete hartal on that date. The East Bengal Legislative Assembly would be in Session on the 21st of February. 1952. and the Provincial Muslim League Council had also arranged to hold a meeting on that date. In the circumstances the District Magistrate of Dacca apprehended that there might be a breach of the peace and disturbance of public tranquility in the city; accordingly at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the previous day the 20th of February, 1952, he duly promulgated an order under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure prohibiting processions, demonstrations and the assembly of 5 or more persons in any public place or thoroughfare in the city except with the prior permission of the District Magistrate. The order was promulgated by beat of drum