Muntakhab al-tawarikh 43.3.2

43.3.2

They say that one day Sultan Muhammad wearing his shoes went on foot into the Court of Justice of Qazi Kamalu-d-Din Sadr-i-Jahan and said, The Shaikhzada-i-Jami has called me a tyrant, send for him that he may substantiate his charge of tyranny against me, or, if he fails, that you may pronounce against him the sentence of such punishment according to law as the case may require. When the Shaikhzada was summoned he confessed (to having said it) and the Sultan enquired (what his grounds were). He replied, every one whom you punish (with death) lawfully or unlawfully, that is your prerogative, but that you should hand over his wife and children to the executioners as you do, to do what they will with them, in what religion and under what sacred law do you find this? The Sultan was silent and rose up from the Court, and ordered that the Shaikhzada should be bound; this order was carried out and he was put into an iron cage; then he had him carried in that very way on the journey to Daulatabad on the back of an elephant. When he returned and arrived at Dihli, he brought him before the same Court, and bringing him out of the cage gave orders in obedience to which the poor wretch was cut in two in his presence.