The very first casualty on October 10, 1946 was Mr. Surendra Nath Basu, a landed Hindu of Naraypur village, followed by Mr. Rajendralal Roy Chowdhury, the President to the District Bar association and 20 members of his family, of Karapa village. This was followed by Mr. Chitta Datta Roy, a learned man of Shayesta Nagar village, and his family, 19 men of the extended families of Mr. Ramama, Mr. Kalikamal and Sashi Patwari of Gopairbag village. Soon the attack turned on the vast majority of Hindus, who were poor and belonged to the oppressed castes. Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Sur of the Noakhali District Bar was kidnapped, asked to dig his own grave and then beheaded by Islamists. His son Prasanta Kumar Sur fled to the safety of Hindu India’s Calcutta eventually becoming a minister of the Communist Party of India — Marxist ministry of West Bengal, and the Communist Party Marxist Mayor of Calcutta, yet be never tried to protect oppressed people he left behind. There is no record of Mayor Sur’s grief and remorse for the loss of his father, his family and native land.” (S. Ghosh Dastida, Bengal’s Hindu Holocaust, Garuda Publication, 2021, p, 216)
