I, Prabhjiv Miglani S/o A.S. Miglani, R/o B-2/160, Safdarjang Enclave, New Delhi, do hereby solemnly affirm and state as under: - 

1.         I say that I am resident of the above mentioned premises and my mother is the owner of the said premises. On the morning of 1^st November, 1984, my mother, my sister and her husband were present in the said premises. I was having a bath at that time. My mother was doing the house work alongwith my sister. My sister’s husband was also having a bath in the other bathroom when suddenly we heard stones being pelted. There was lot of noise of the stones being thrown and people shouting. I rushed out of the bathroom, tying a towal round my body. I saw that there were about 100 people who were all throwing stones at our front doors. They were all carrying iron rods to the length of 4 fts. Or so which were pointed from one end. Some of them were carrying crow bars also. My sister who had been watching from the window said that one man was leading the mob. The said man was on a cycle and she recognized him as a Kabariya who comes to our locality often.  He was carrying the piece of paper from which he was pointing out the various houses of the Sikh community. The time was approximately 10 O’clok.  The people in the mob were approximately between the ages of 18 to 25 except a few who were older.  They were also carrying cans of kerosene oil and old tyres.  After breaking our doors with stone, the people in mob rushed inside and started looting the valuables from thedrawing room as well as kitchen which is on the ground floor.  Then they soaked curtains in kerosene oil and set them on fire.  Thereafter, they set fire to the doors and threw burning tyres on the sofas and carpets. They broke the television by hitting the same with stones.  By this time, almost the whole of ground floor was ablaze.  To save our lives, we rushed out from the back door.  The whole episode seemed well planned and an organized affair.  The persons in the mob were also drunk. Except the Kabariya and one more person who runs way side shop on the main road in Safdarjung Enclave in the name of Hasmukhi, sells cold drinks and flowers etc. we  did not recognize any one else and it seems that none other belonged to our colony and they were all outsiders.  The whole occurrence took about 15 to 20 minutes.

2.        We range up the fire-brigade but they  refused to come and said that they had no vehicles and that we must make our own arrangements for extinguishing the fire.  We also rang up the police  but they also showed their inaibility to come and talked in a very curt and indifferent tone.

3.       After the mob had left, our neighbours came to our rescuefrom the back side and helped us in extinguishing the fire, although almost the entire ground floor at that time had been totally gutted and damaged.  We stayed in a neighbour’s house during the day.  At about 4 O’clock another mob came.  This was a larger mob consisting of almost 400 to 500 people.  All were carrying lathies, iron rods and tins of kerosene oil.  They saw our furniture and doors smouldering from outside and seeing everything has been looted and burnt, they started shouting using abusive language and asking us to come out, and asked where we were hiding. A police vehicle was patrolling but they just turned their face and did not take action.  Our neighbours told the mob that we had already left the premises.  We were watching all this from our neighbour’s windows.  They then went away from our neighbour’s windows. They then went away after again a lot of stone throwing and shouting.

4.        Therefore some friends came and took us to their house in Padara Road where we stayed till the 4^th of November, 1984.  We returned when the curfew was lifted in the day time on the 4^th November, 1984.  We reported the matter to the police and an FIR was duly registered by usin the Vinay Nagar Police Station.