Aftermath

It did not take long for this drama to reach its denouement. A dozen and a half Sikhs lay dead on the spot, riddled with bullets. Over forty Sikhs received serious injuries with bullets, sharp-edged weapons and blunt lathis, and another one hundred Sikhs received grievous injuries requiring medical attention. Some passers-by, including a Muslim labourer, is amongst the dead and two or three of the dead persons are claimed by the Sikh-baiters as belonging to their own "religious" sect, though the Sikh-baiters have failed to come forward to support it by having a formal case registered with the police for proper investigation. It is widely rumoured that many dead bodies of the Sikhs were taken into possession by their killers and dragged into their enclosure but now no trace is available of them.

The huge gathering of the Sikh-baiters that was scheduled to be formally addressed also by a Punjab State non-Sikh Minister and an influential non-Sikh, Jullundur news paper owner, continued undisturbed for some three hours even after this massacre of the Sikhs, about two hundred yards away, and the instigator and organiser of this holocaust, the presiding deity of this Sikh-baiters' organisation, was leisurely and safely escorted out of Punjab, with high Government officers, respectfully acting as his escort.

Two car loads of lethal weapons, earlier brought in, were also thus taken away. On reaching Delhi he was promptly granted an interview with the Prime Minister of India from whom he demanded full adequate arrangements guaranteeing his personal and his followers' protection. A case for murdered Sikhs on the 13th of April, 1978, at Amritsar, has been registered by the police authorities and caches of lethal weapons and other arms have been recovered from the Amritsar meeting place and other organisational centres of these Sikh-baiters. A number of suspects have been arrested and detained in judicial lock-up for further action.