Some of the eminent Bengali Hindus of the region took shelter at the Chowdhury house at Kewar.

[3] On the early morning of 14 May at around 4 am, a group of around 70 consisting of military men and the collaborators surrounded the Chowdhury house.

Sixteen of them were made to stand in a line and burst fired from machine gun.

[2] Out of the remaining six persons, Kedareshwar Chowdhury and Dr. Surendra Chandra Saha were taken to the Haraganga College army camp.

[2] The former, popularly known as Jala Moktar, was the scion of the Chowdhury family and a pleader at the court and the latter a physician.