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Dr. Randhir Singh

City: Amritsar

Dr. Randhir Singh, Sandhu, son of Kesar Singh, Village Rai-Ka-Burj, P. S. Sirhali, District Amritsar. He went to America in September 1920 and entered the University of California in 1921. He was a member of the Ghadr Party and was reported to have addressed a Ghadr meeting held at Stockton on 15th January 1921. He attended another meeting held in memory of the Sikhs who lost their lives at Nankana Sahib, at the Stockton Sikh Temple on the 9th of July 1921 and at another meeting held in the same place on the 15th of November 1922, he exhorted the Sikhs to fight the tyrant. In April 1922 he participated with Gopal Singh (G-25) in endeavoring to organize a separate section of the Ghadr Party to be composed principally of members of the Indian student body of Berkeley. About the middle of 1923 he was in the Ashram working with Puran Singh of Jandiala (P-37) and Indar Singh of Tuto Majra (1-5), and in conjunction with them published a pamphlet called "Echoes of Freedom" which he broadcasted through the post. In 1923 he graduated from the School of Pharmacy, and obtained his medical degree from the University of Kansas in 1928. At a meeting held in Stockton Temple on 13th April 1930 to discuss the question of the establishment of the Indian colony in Mexico, he promised medical help to the Ghadr Party at any time required. He sailed for India in July 1930 to take up the Directorship of the Indo-American Medical Institute, Amritsar, which he is said to have founded in conjunction with Bhagat Singh Thind (B-48), and arrived in India on the 25th of September 1930. Was said to have been entrusted with Rs. 30,000 by the Ghadr Party for propaganda among the Kirti workers in India, but evidently the money was embezzled by him and spent in bringing out a paper entitled the "New Era" in consultation with Partap Singh, M. A., (P-16). He applied for the renewal of his passport in September 1931, but the request was refused and his passport was cancelled. Associates with Partap Singh, M. A., (P-16), Darbara Singh Sondhi (D-13), Dasaundha Singh Mann (D-16), Wasakha Singh (W-6), and Santa Singh (S-l 8).

Description : Born 12th August 1900; height 5'-8"; scar on left arm; color of eyes brown; black hair.