Banda Singh was offered the usual option between death or Islam and expectedly he refused to renounce his faith. To compound the brutality, his four-year-old son was placed in his lap and he was asked to kill him. As no father could commit such an act, Banda too refused. The executioner then hacked the little boy to pieces, right in front of Banda’s eyes and his quivering liver was pulled out and thrust in his father’s mouth, who stood like a statue, unmoved and completely resigned to God’s will. 28
