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Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was executed
Banda Singh Bahadur was put into an iron cage and the remaining Sikhs were chained. The Sikhs were brought to Delhi in a procession with the 780 Sikh prisoners, 2,000 Sikh heads hung on spears, and 700 cartloads of heads of slaughtered Sikhs used to terrorise the population.
They were put in the Delhi fort and pressured to give up their faith and become Muslims. The prisoners remained unmoved. On their firm refusal these non-converters were ordered to be executed. Every day 100 Sikh soldiers were brought out of the fort and murdered in public In March 1715,on the order of Mughal
Emperor Farrukh Siyar, the army under the rule of abdus Samad Khan, the Mughal king of Delhi, drove Banda Bahadur and the Sikh forces into the village of Gurdas Nangal, Gurdaspur, Punjab and laid siege to the village.The Sikhs defended the small
fort for eight months under conditions of great hardship,but on 7 December 1715 the Mughals broke into the starving garrison and captured Banda Singh and his companions.
Banda Singh Bahadur was put into an iron cage and the remaining Sikhs were chained.The Sikhs were brought to Delhi in a procession with the 780 Sikh prisoners, 2,000 Sikh heads hung on spears, and 700 cartloads of heads of slaughtered Sikhs used to terrorise the population.
They were put in the Delhi fort and pressurised to give up their faith and become Muslims.On their firm refusal all were ordered to be executed. Every day, 100 Sikhs were brought out of the fort and murdered in public.This continued for approximately seven days.After three months of confinement, on 9 June 1716,
Banda Singh's eyes were gouged out, his limbs were severed, his skin removed, and then he was killed.
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