CALCUTTA, India, Dec. 20 (AP) — Indian telegraphic authorities told The Associated Press today that five photographs showing the executions of suspected East Pakistani collaborators in Dacca could riot be transmitted because they were detrimental to “the national interests.”

The photos were part of an 11‐picture series on the killings. The other six were transmitted. [Three of those photographs were published in Monday's issue of The New York Times.]

A senior officer of the Overseas Communication Service, the Government agency that transmits radiophotos abroad, informed The Associated Press of the decision after the news agency had asked Government offices in New Delhi and Calcutta to have the pictures radioed to the regional picture headquarters in London.

“We submit to the military authorities for clearance any thing which we consider objectionable from the point of view of our national interest,” said A. S. Khadilkar, director of the Overseas Communication Service office in Calcutta. “I don't call it censorship.”

Of the five pictures barred from transmission, Mr. Khadilkar sold, “We do not consider them to be in our interests.”

The film of the public executions, which took place in Dacca on Saturday, was taken to Calcutta Sunday and processed here because radiophoto transmission facilities have not been restored in Dacca.

The photos from the execution and a Bangladesh political rally that preceded it were submitted for transmission Sunday night to the Overseas Communication office in Calcutta. The pictures officials refused to transmit show Mukti Bahini (liberation forces) soldiers stabbing and bayoneting victims, the victims on the ground in death throes and a little boy being stomped by a Mukti Bahini soldier.

The Indian Government has always maintained that there is no censorship in the country. Foreign correspondents were able to send their dispatches on the India‐Pakistani war, as on other events in normal times, without prior Government clearance.

When a national emergency was declared Dec. 3, at the start of the war, the Indian press and foreign correspondents were given booklets outlining guidance for coverage of news developments during the emergency, which still remains in effect.

Most of the rules concern restriction on reporting news that could be of use “to the enemy.”