The Qadian Diary — Page 34
Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad 34 ul-Zafar’ situated in Mohalla Darul-Anwar, Qadian. 2. That I was living in Bait-ul-Zafar and the cattle be- longing to the Chaudhry Sahib were also in the house. 3. That on 25th September 1947 the Police looted the cattle of the Muslims in almost all the Mohallas of Qadian and about sunset ten Military soldiers with a Havildar came to Bait-ul-Zafar and sending for me asked me to give them the top-most roof and verandah of the first storey as they had to post a picket there under orders of their Captain. They accordingly took possession of these places and asked us to supply them with ten cots which we provided for them. At this time I myself, five servants of the house and many Muslim refugees with their women and children who had come from the neighbouring villages were living in Bait-ul-Zafar, we having vacated the ground floor rooms for the refugees by locking the household effects and property of Chaudhry Sahib in the upper storey rooms. 4. That these soldiers kept annoying the women refugees the whole of that night which fact was disclosed to me by the refugees the next morning; and the next night gathering the women and children in the two central rooms, the doors round about were bolted from the inside for the sake of protection and men were put on guard in the verandah who were continually threatened by the soldiers that if they kept awake they would be shot. 5. That on the night of the 26th September 1947 I was told by two soldiers at about 11 P M. that the