NEW DELHI, April 16 — The Indian Government today described the Pakistani Army's actions in East Pakistan as “savage and medieval butchery” and “preplanned carnage and systematic genocide.”

The characterization was the strongest made thus far by India, or any other government. of the Pakistani Army's attempt to put down a hid for independence by the Bengali population of East Pakistan. The Indian Government had previously expressed support for the independence movement and condemned the Pakistani Army's actions in milder terms.

The description today was contained in an official statement read at a news conference at the Ministry of External Affairs called to condemn charges by the Pakistani Government that India was meddling in Pakistan's internal affairs.

S. K. Singh the Government spokesman, charged that Pakistan was “whipping up a hate India campaign” around the world.

“West Pakistan's Government apparatus is obviously busying itself in diverting the attention of their own people as well as that of the people of the world from the savage and medieval butchery they are indulging in East Bengal [East Pakistan] he said.

He described as baseless charges that Indian soldiers were fighting in East Pakistan, that some had been captured and that Indian arms were being supplied to the independence movement.

Those and other charges, he said, were an attempt to “interpret the present struggle of the people of East Bengal for self‐respect economic development and peace as merely another point of dispute between India and Pakistan.”

Speaking before television cameras, Mr. Singh asked: “Can the evidence of the preplanned I carnage and systematic genocide in East Bengal by the West Pakistan military machine be hidden behind anti‐Indian allegations and propaganda?”