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Buta Singh

Village: Chakwal

City: Jhelum

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.