Battan Singh, alias Batna, alias Amar Chand, alias Scott, son of Nihal Singh, of Kalewal Bhagtan, District Hoshiarpur. Arrived in Canada probably about 1908 and almost from the first appears to have taken interest in the Ghadr Party. During the years 1922-28 he corresponded fairly regularly with Dasaundha Singh Mann (D-16), both while the latter was a student in California and later in the course of his mission to the Far East with Mahendra Pratap In November 1922 he wrote a letter to Dasaundha Singh Mann, Moscow, Idaho under the name of Amar Chand alias Scott from 33, Ave and Pine Street, Vancouver, telling him about the despatch of some copies of the "Bande Mataram" and asking him to mail to the Ghadr a letter which he had addressed to Bishan Singh, and in which he had stated that copies of the "Ghadr" were being received at the old address. In April 1923 he sent a letter to Harjap Singh of Mahilpur (H-32), at San Francisco, asking him not to send the "Ghadr" under the name of Scott but under the other name already known to him. From 1930 onwards he was one of the acknowledged representatives of the Ghadr Party in British Columbia and was known to several of the leaders at San Francisco. He returned to India about the end of December 1932.

Description : Age 49 years; height 5-8"; moustache; no beard; hair very scanty.