This Is Not That Dawn: Jhootha Sach - Plot & Excerpts
THE court sat for an extra half-hour, and Puri and Mewa Ram were released. Masterji, Ratan and Khushal Singh had been present in court since ten in the morning. Babu Govindram had had Ratan released four days earlier. The bail hearing for Bir Singh and others was postponed for three days. Puri had been arrested at the time of the Shahalami conflagration, when it was hazardous to pass through the fire-ridden bazaars of Bajaj Hatta and Machchi Hatta. Those arrested had been taken to the police station by way of Rang Mahal and Delhi Gate. The blaze had since subsided. Puri and the others returned to their homes through Shahalami. The once bustling and vibrant bazaars of Shahalami had been burned to the ground. What remained were the ruins of two-, three-and four-storey houses, and vast mounds of garbage. A narrow path straggled between the rows of giant burnt-out pyres. To remove that debris would have been like digging up and carting away a mountain. Stumps of wooden beams, fallen steel girders, the remains of doors and frames, and charred planks were scattered around.
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