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<p class="C1">&#65279SUCHCH&#256NAND (d. 1710), a Khatr&#299 official in the court of Naw&#257b Waz&#299r <u>Kh</u>&#257n, <i>faujd&#257r</i> of Sirhind, was instrumental in the execution of S&#257hibz&#257d&#257 Zor&#257war Si&#7749gh and S&#257hibz&#257d&#257 Fateh Si&#7749gh, Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh's two younger sons aged nine and seven respectively. The S&#257hibz&#257d&#257s and their grandmother, M&#257t&#257 Gujar&#299, had been betrayed into Mu<u>gh</u>al custody by their servant, Ga&#7749g&#363. Brought to his presence at Sirhind, Waz&#299r <u>Kh</u>&#257n offered to the captive young men the usual choice of conversion to Islam or death. The S&#257hibz&#257d&#257 having scornfully rejected the former were ordered to be executed. At this Naw&#257b Sher Muhammad <u>Kh</u>&#257n of M&#257lerko&#7789l&#257, who was present, protested against the sentence awarded to the children. As Waz&#299r <u>Kh</u>&#257n began to waver at the just reproof of his peer, Suchch&#257nand put in a remark: "The progeny of a serpent shall grow up as serpents, and should therefore be shown no mercy." Waz&#299r <u>Kh</u>&#257n thereupon reiterated his order for the children to be bricked up alive in a wall.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In January 1710, when Band&#257 Si&#7749gh Bah&#257dur invested Sirhind, Suchch&#257nand too met his nemesis and was done to death.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Kuir Si&#7749gh, <i>Gurbil&#257s P&#257tsh&#257h&#299 10</i>. Patiala, 1968<BR>
<li class="C1"> Santokh Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. Amritsar, 1927-35<BR>
<li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh Padam<br></p><BR>
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