History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c85.s6.17

v5.c85.s6.17

We have a significant example of the moral degeneration of the Mughal peerage. The prime-minister's grandson, Mirza Tafakhkhur used to sally forth from his mansion in Delhi with his ruffians, plunder the shops in the bazar, kidnap Hindu women passing through the public streets in litters or going to the river, and dishonour them; and yet there was no judge to punish him, no police to prevent such crimes. "Everytime such an occurrence was brought to the Emperor's notice by the news-letters or official reports, he referred to the prime-minister, and did nothing more." At last after a Hindu artillery-man's wife had been forcibly abducted and his comrades threatened to mutiny, Aurangzib merely ordered the licentious youth to be prevented from coming out of his mansion. [Hamid-ud-din's Ahkam § 48; another in M. U. i. 320.]