Devindar Singh ’Kata!’, alias Teja Singh, son of Thakur Singh, Village Sansarpur, District Jullundur. Is a matriculate. He is believed to have sympathised with the Akalis during the Akali movement though he posed as a helper of the Government. On 27th February 1926 he was granted passport No. 20054 for Kenya Colony by the Punjab Government. In 1928 he was working as Honorary Secretary ofthe Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Nairobi, East Africa. In 1931 he was employed as a clerk in Barclay's Bank Nairobi. Was said to have a great following there and to be a great agitator and a rank Communist. Was said to have been receiving financial help from Moscow through Ishar Das for his Communist propaganda in the Colony. About the latter half of 1931 he wrote a letter to Bhag Singh Canadian (B-47) requesting that copies ofthe "Mazdoor Kisan" might be sent to some 20 addresses in Kenya Colony. He further stated that he had organised a Kirti Party in Kenya and asked for a letter ofintroduction to assist those of its members whom he hoped to send to Moscow for training. He also contributed an article to the "Hindustan Ghadr" for February 1932 in which he exhorted the youths to strive hard to free their country. Was issued with Kenya passport No. A.-18994 valid for the British Empire and endorsed for Panama on 13th January 1930, in applying for which he stated that his previous passport had been lost. Was last heard ofin Zanzibar in January 1932.

Description : Age between 25/30 years; height 5-9"; left thumb missing; fair complexion; medium build; photo on record.