Partition of India

For the first time this year there has been a lot of coverage in the media about the partition of India into India and Pakistan. As my dad is 70+ and would have been in India at the time I asked him what he remembered. He was in Bombay (Mumbai) at the time. He told me of a time as a 12 year old child when he was on a train. Some soldiers cam on board and asked everyone one by one what religion they were. My dad and his friends being Catholic told them they were from Goa, and showed them their crosses and scapulars that they wore. They then witnessed the other passengers who were Muslins have their heads cut off in front of them. I have never heard my dad speak of what he saw that day until I asked him about partition.