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 Question No. 67-"And this state of things continued from the time you reached there till the firing was actually resorted to?”

 Answer-'Since my arrival and in between the firings there were two lathi charges also."

 Question No. 68-"Excepting these two lathi charges do you mean to say that there was no brickbatting?”

 Answer-"There were brickbats all the time; and after the lathi charges it increased heavily."

 Question No. 69-"And the District Magistrate, the D.I.G, S.P., D.S.P., all of them were exposed to the shower of brickbats?”

 Answer-"Yes, Sir."

 Question No. 70-"Where were you when the D.M. was actually giving the firing order, at what distance were you from the District Magistrate?”.

 Answer-"That I did not hear. I did not hear the D.M. giving the order of firing."

 Question No. 71-"When the actual firing was resorted to where were you?”

 Answer-"I was outside, in front of the shops on the road."

 Question No. 82-"The firing continued for what length of time?”

 Answer-"The first firing for a minute or two or so and after that there was a pause for two or three minutes and it might not be more than two minutes."

 42. The responsibility for the firing rests of course on the shoulders of three officials, viz., the District Magistrate, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police and the Superintendent of Police. It was suggested in criticism that the constables who actually fired were not examined as witnesses in the course of the enquiry. Had the police case been that the constables fired on the mob in self-defence without any order, then it would have been necessary to examine all the constables who opened fire in order to see from their own statements whether their action was justified in the exercise of their right of private defence. This question, however, does not arise because the constables admittedly fired under orders and the only point for decision is whether the persons who gave the order were justified in doing so by the circumstances obtaining at that particular t1me.

 43. Witness No. 28 is an important witness (he is Mr. Md. Kamal, M.A.) inasmuch as he is the only independent witness to the firing on the police side who arrived on the scene immediately before the police opened fire. This witness stated that he had been to the High Court on the afternoon of the 21st February and left the High Court at 2-30 p.m. on his way to the Assembly House to see one Maulvi Najibullah. He went on foot proceeding along the Fuller Road. On the Fuller Road he ran into a mob on the northwest side of the University field near the pumping station. A mob was gathering round the University playing field and it consisted, in his opinion, of 1,000 people who were shouting slogans and throwing brickbats on the police. The police was throwing tear gas on them and the tear gas was effective for a short while and drove the crowd back. The crowd recovered and once more came to attack the police. Witness stated that he