D-31. Dost Muhammad Khan, son ofGame Khan, Rajput, of Halwara, District Ludhiana. He spent 3 years each in Manila and Hong Kong and was back in India in 1914. In the same year he went again to Manila. During the stay of the s.s. "Korea" at Manila he was visited by Nawab Khan of Halwara (the approver) and Jagat Ram (J-2) convicted in the Lahore Conspiracy Case and arrangements were made at his house for the holding of a Ghadr meeting. A very seditious letter from him to Mewa Singh at Canton was also intercepted in 1915. He took an active part in the celebrations held in Manila in April 1919 in connection with the political disturbances in India and it was at his house that a meeting was held on the 10th May 1919 to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny. In October 1920 it was reported that he had remitted £90 to Zafar Ali Khan of the "Zemindar" for seditious purposes but the report was never substantiated. In 1921 he became President ofthe Indian Revolutionary Society of Manila, but he returned to India in June 1921. On arrival he was examined but made a false statement denying all allegations made against him. In October of the same year he applied for a passport to return to Manila but it was refused. He managed to leave India and arrived in Singapore in May 1922 but was persuaded to return to India. Subsequently he applied twice, in September 1922 and October 1926 for a passport to Manila but on both occasions his request was refused. He associates with a number of returned emigrants and is at present working as a trader in his village. His son Rahmat and his brother Ali Muhammad are in Manila. Instructions exist that Dost Muhammad Khan is not to be granted passport facilities to proceed to any foreign country in case he applies for them. He owns property in his village and in the Bahawalpur State.

Description : Height about 5'-5"; stout build; sallow complexion; one ear disfigured by a cut above the lobe; wears swadeshi clothes; knows English; age 55 years.