Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for the first time met yesterday with rebel leaders from East Pakistan who sought support for their provisional Bengali government. The three Bengalis said the meeting was "encouraging" but disclosed no details. The three, all officials of the Awami League, East Pakistanis majority party, were also guests of a reception held by the Indian parliament, which has sympathized with the separatist cause.

In Karachi, the government of President Yahya Khan lifted censorship of outgoing press dispatches. Censorship had been in effect since March 26 when federal troops moved to crush the East Pakistan breakaway movement .

Meanwhile 800 person were reported dead from cholera in the last five days in refugee camps for East Pakistanis who fled into adjacent districts of India. The chief medical officer of Nadia district of West Bengal said another 1,200 refugees were being treated for cholera. The World Health Organization and Red Cross in Geneva said they had received no request from India for help in fighting the cholera but that supplies of vaccine and health teams were ready.