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Bishan Singh

Village: Raikot

City: Ludhiana

Bishan Singh, son of Likal Singh, of Nathowal, P. S. Raikot, District Ludhiana. He was a member of the party which left America by the s.s. "Korea". Along with other passenger he was transhipped to the "Tosha Maru" and was chosen to be a member of Nawab Khan's special band. He was interned and was the first to be released but restricted to his village in 1916. The restrictions were removed in February 1919. About the middle of 1919 he was taken to the Malay States for enlistment in the Police but was rejected on Account of his past history and consequently he returned to Calcutta in September 1919. He was granted a passport by the Bengal Government through an oversight, and he proceeded to China but his presence there was considered undesirable and he was deported to India in 1921. He lived at his village for a time and subsequently found his way to America and Mexico. A report was received in August 1923 that two men named Bishan Singh and Bakhshish Singh "whom the Ghadr Party sent to India in 1914" had returned to Mexico. In 1931 he was reported to be serving a three years sentence in the Oregon State Ponetentiary for attempting to shoot some Indians with whom he had quarrelled. His photo and finger-prints are on record. He was released on parole at the end of 1931 and is at present reported to be working as a labourer in America, and to be an associate of Narain Singh of his village.

Description : Sallow complexion; flat face; height 5'-8"; age 45 years.