But the police dismisses the arguments and evidences off-hand. She shows the packet of bangles left by the dacoits, Malli and his gang, to shame Jugga for not participating in the crime, and gives the patent argument that no dacoit would ever commit dacoity in his own village. Not finding Jugga at home, police arrests him on suspicion of his being an accomplice of the dacoits, though Jugga’s mother shows clinching evidence against the suspicion. When dacoity is being committed, he is busy in making love with Nooran in the field. Jugga’s mother advises him against going out that night but the intensity of his passion makes him deaf to the pleadings of his mother. Juggut Singh alias Jugga goes to the field outside the village on the night of the dacoity for a love tryst with his beloved Nooran, though he is bound by a Court order to report at the police station every week-end and to remain at home every night.

While going away from the village, the dacoits leave the packet of bangles at Jugga’s house according to their plan. Ram Lal wept and wailed, but the dacoits did not spare his life. The dacoits commit the dacoity, loot cash and jewellery and kill Lala Ram Lal ruthlessly. One night in August, five dacoits came to Mano Majra with the intention to commit dacoity in the house of the money-lender, Lala Ram Lal, but they carry a packet of bangles to be dropped at Jugga’s house since Jugga had refused to be a party with them in their plan.

Therefore, the trains and the railway station play an important role in the life of the people in Mano Majra. The arrivals and departures of the trains regulate the daily routine in Mano Maira. The priest at the Sikh temple is alerted by the mullah’s call.

Mail trains do not stop at this station, but the morning mail train’s whistle tells the mullah at the mosque that it is time for prayer. Only two passenger trains, one from Delhi to Lahore the morning and the other from Lahore to Delhi in evening, stop at the station. The Station Master himself sells tickets, collects tickets at the exit, sends messages over the telegraph. Mano Mara has a railway station which has a colony of shopkeepers and hawkers who supply food, betel leaves, etc. The three buildings surround a common courtyard having a large peepal tree in the middle. Mano Majra has only three brick buildings, house of the money-lender Lala Ram Lal, the Sikh temple and the mosque. They visit the Sikh temple which is visited by all, even by Lala Ram Lal. There are a few families of sweepers who belong to neither of the religious communities, but they have goined the American missionaries in dance and singing. The Sikhs are the land owners and the Muslims are the tenants. The others, the Sikhs and the Muslims are in equal number. Only seventy families live in that village.

The novelist describes life in Mano Majra a small village, half a mile from the bank of Sutlej.

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