A mob attacked the family on three occasion in Uttam Nagar, adjacent to Janakpuri and the inhabitants managed to find safety with a Hindu relative. But on the third day, the relatives asked the family to go and even confiscated their Khanda (small sword). Once the mob returned, the relatives refused to help. In the attack that followed, Tirath Singh, age 42, Raghbir Singh, age 30 and Joginder Singh, age 18 were killed. Gurdwara Uttam Nagar was also attacked and burnt and the Holy Guru Granth Sahib torn up. Adjacent to their house, two other Sikhs were killed, Billa Singh and Mohan Singh.1
In Jiwan Park, Uttam Nagar, witnesses reported that on the night of the 2nd November, three locals were repeatedly announcing by loudspeakers that Sikhs had mixed poison in the drinking water and that a train full of dead bodies of Hindus had arrived in the city from the Punjab. On the 3rd November, Paramjit Singh was killed. The local police asked his son, Lakhbir Singh not to name the culprits including Congress workers in the First Information Report (FIR).2 In the nearby village of Matiala, a mob attacked the house and shop of Gurcharan Singh. Gurcharan Singh and his son Pavitar Singh were both beaten to death.3
Dalip Singh and his son, Jit Singh were also killed in Uttam Nagar. Dalip died in the house, in the presence of his wife, Swaran Kaur, while Jit was killed in the street, in front of the house. Gudu, the owner of a local Kerosene oil depot spread the false rumours on loudspeaker that a train full of dead bodies of Hindus had arrived from the Punjab and in Tilak Nagar and Subash Nagar, large number of Hindus had been killed by Sikhs, inciting local Hindus to kill. The police refused to record the crimes despite Swaran Kaur’s witness statements identifying the culprits.4