Naib of Patna, arrived to support Siraj-ud-daula.

The same day the Nawab wrote to Clive: "Mr. Law I have put out of the city, and have wrote expressly to my Naib at Patna to turn him and his attendants out of the bounds of his Subaship, and that he shall not suffer them to stay in any place within it.

He at once dismissed the Naib from his employ and hastened to Ghoria, where he instructed a pleader named Asu Babu to petition the collector for leave to make good the arrears on Lakhimpur.