Buta Singh, son of Bishen Singh, of Diwalian, now of Chakwal, District
Jhelum. About 1929 he was reported to be a notorious anti-British
agitator in East Persia. He is an associate of Gopal Singh, son of Jai
Singh of v. Thanil Kamal, district Jhelum (G-23). He is closely connected
with Zachin Shikoff, Assistant Soviet Consul, Sistan, who it was stated,
was sending money and also pistols through him in parcels of lungies and
fruits to India. In 1929 Buta Singh was convicted on a charge of
exporting gold from Persia to India, and sentenced to 7 months’
imprisonment, but he escaped from Persia. In May 1932 he was reported
to be in Quetta.