Colonel Dyer reported to his superiors that he had been "confronted by a revolutionary army", to which Major General William Beynon replied: "Your action correct and Lieutenant Governor approves." O'Dwyer requested that martial law should be imposed upon Amritsar and other areas, and this was granted by Viceroy Lord Chelmsford.According to a liberal lawyer Sivaswamy Aiyer, who had received a knighthood from the government, wrote that during the Punjab martial law several atrocities were committed. The flogging of men in public, the flogging of marriage party, closure of Badshahi mosque for six weeks, the handcuffing of Hindus and Muslims in pairs to demonstrate the consequences of Hindu-Muslim unity, the removal of fans from Indian houses and giving them to Europeans, the construction of an open cage for confining people, use of airplanes to bomb people, crawling orders, skipping orders...compelling school children of 5 to 7 to attend parades to salute flag were some of the atrocities committed by the British during the administration of martial law.