Balwant Kaur of West Sagarpur testified that on the evening of 31 October, the ration cards of Sikhs were checked by a local congress worker, sent by MP, Sajjan Kumar. The next morning the attacks began:
We could see through the holes while hiding in the building we saw that they first caught hold of my brother-in-law, Gurnam Singh, then removed all his clothes except an underwear. Then they cut his hair (they had scissors with them). Then they took them around the colony while hitting them with sticks. They were saying that they were watching the disco dance of the Sikhs. See how good they danced. The mob was also dancing and rejoicing. Narinjan Singh and Santokh Singh, two sons of my brother-in-law, who were hiding in the house of Mahinder Pal (opposite Kapoor’s house), came out when they saw their father being attacked while he was naked. They were killed by Jats with iron rods, sticks and sabbals.
Affidavit of Balwant Kaur submitted to the Misra Commission, 1987.1
The other men from her family tried to hide at the tube well. The mobs found them. The following were killed there: her son, Suchdev Singh, brother-in-laws Lakhwinder Singh, Balwinder Singh and Baldev Singh, nephew Tirlochan Singh as well as other members of her family, Gian Singh, Avtar Singh, Amrik Singh, Jaswant Singh, Paramjit Singh, Rachpal Singh.
She goes on to say that “Those people were keeping a watch on us throughout the night by flashing battery light, and were saying, “You Gianis, say Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa. Why have you slept now, get up now, keep awake.” They were even kicking the dead bodies while passing near them.”2