Seorutun Sing seized a Brahmin who was travelling with his wife and brother, and, on the pretence that he must be a relation of the fugitive Rajah, had him murdered, and his head struck off on the spot.  The wife took the head of her murdered husband in her arms, wrapped it up in cloth, and, attended by his brother, walked with it a distance of fifty miles to Ajoodheea, where Rughbur Sing was then engaged in religious ceremonies.  The poor woman placed the head before him, and demanded justice on her husband’s murderers.  He coolly ordered the head to be thrown into the river, and the woman and her brother-in-law to be driven from his presence.  Many other respectable persons were seized and tortured on similar pretext of being related to, or having served or assisted, the fugitive Rajah.  Moistened gunpowder was smeared thickly over the beards of the men, and when dry set fire to; and any friend or relatives who presumed to show signs of pity was seized and tortured, till he or she paid a ransom.  All the people in the country around, who had moveable property of any kind, were plundered by these two atrocious agents, and tortured till they paid all that they could beg and borrow.  Many respectable families were dishonoured in the persons of wives, sisters, or daughters, and almost all the towns and villages around became deserted.

In Rajah Nirput Sing’s estate of Pyagpoor, the same atrocities were committed.  Rajah Rughbur Sing seized upon this estate as soon as he entered upon his charge in 1846, and put it under the management of his own agents; and, after extorting from the tenants more than was justly due, according to engagement, he attacked the Rajah’s house by surprise, and plundered it of property to the value of fifteen thousand rupees.  The Rajah, however, contrived to make his escape with his family.  He had nothing with him to subsist upon, and in 1847 he was invited back on solemn pledges of personal security; and, from great distress, was induced again to undertake the management of his own estate, at an exorbitant rate of assessment.

In spite of this engagement, Goureeshunker, when the tenants had become lulled into security by the hope of remaining under their own chief, suddenly, with his troops, seized upon all he could catch, plundered their houses, and tortured them till they paid all that they could prevail upon their relatives and friends to lend them.  Eighteen hundred of their plough-bullocks were seized and sold by him, together with many of their wives and daughters.  While under torture, Seetaram, a respectable Brahmin, of Kandookoeea, put an end to his existence, to avoid further sufferings and dishonour.  Sucheet, another respectable Brahmin, of Pagaree, did the same by opening a vein in his thigh.  A cloth steeped in oil was bound round the hands of those who appeared able, but unwilling, to pay ransoms, and set fire to, so as to burn like a torch.  In these tortures, Lala Beharee Lal, Rughbur Sing’s deputy, was the chief agent.