Memoir-In Translation-Urdu
By Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi ‘Sahar’. Translated from the original Urdu by Kamna Prasad
Bedi along with some important citizens and police officials went from door to door, requesting the occupants to vacate the premises. Several members of the committee, unable to tolerate the abuses hurled at them, gave up, but Bedi with two others persisted and, in a few months, ‘almost all the residential houses were vacated’. A second incident involved someone who had fled his home in Karol Bagh during the riots and wanted to recover the valuables he had left behind. Bedi accompanied him to his house which was then occupied by a Sikh refugee. On being apprised of the matter, the Sikh immediately called his family out and told the claimant:
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