According to the single best eyewitness chronicle—the bakhar by Shuja-ud-Daulah 's Diwan Kashi Raj—about 40,000 Maratha prisoners were slaughtered Killing in cold blood the day after the battle .

On 19 April 1848 Patrick Vans Agnew of the civil service Rite and Lieutenant William Anderson of the Bombay European regiment , having been sent Sending to take charge of Multan from Diwan Mulraj , were murdered Killing there , and within a short time the Sikh troops joined Becoming_a_member in open Openness rebellion .