Riyaz al-salatin 112.3.3

112.3.3

When news reached him that the mouth of Nazirpur was unnavigable and boats could not pass by that way, he was obliged to disembark, and went to the house of Dan Shah Pirzadah, whose house was at that place. Dan Shah who previous to this had suffered some injury at the hands of Siraju-d-daulah, finding the latter in his power, and seeing the times favourable, by giving assurances and consolations, detained Siraju-d-daulah in his house, and ostensibly engaging on preparing food, sent information to Mir Daud Ali Khan, Faujdar of Akbarnagar (Rajmahal), who was brother of Mir Muhammad Jafar Khan. The spies of Daud Ali Khan who were searching for Siraju-d-daulah, fancying it to be a grand victory, swiftly arrived, and capturing Siraju-d-daulah carried him from the house of Dan Shah to Akbarnagar, from whence the spies of Daud Ali Khan and Mir Muhammad Qasim Khan carried him in their company to Murshidabad. Mir Muhammad Jafar Khan threw Siraju-d-daulah into prison that day. On the next day, with the advice of the English Chiefs, and on the importunity and insistance of Jagat Set, he slew him, and suspending the corpse of that victim of oppression to a howdah on an elephant's back, sent it round the City, and then buried it in Khosh Bagh in the Mausoleum of Nawab Mahabat Jang. After some days, Mir Jafar killed also Mirza Mihdi Ali Khan, the younger brother of Siraju-d-daulah, by stretching him on an instrument of torture, and buried his body by the side of his brother's grave.