Ghulam Muhammad Aziz, alias Aziz Hindi, son of Madho, Kashmiri, of Mori Ganj, Amritsar City. Is educated up to the Middle standard. Participated in the Rowlatt Bill agitation and was well to the fore with seditious poems of his own composition at every protest meeting held at Amritsar. Was arrested in the Amritsar Leaders' Case and was convicted and sentenced to transportation for life. Was released under the Royal Amnesty in December 1919, and forthwith began to take a prominent part in the Khilafat agitation. Became a staunch supporter of Hijrat and in May 1920 took up the work of superintending the departure of Muhajirs from Peshawar. In June 1920 went on Hijrat to Kabul, where he formed an Indian Muhajirin Committee and received Rs. 10,000 from the Central Khilafat Committee, Bombay, in aid of the Indian Muhajirin in Afghanistan. Was dismissed from the Hijrat office in July 1920 for alleged misappropriation of funds. In November of the same year, he was reported to be in close touch with the late Djmal Pasha, then in Kabul, and to have served under him with the rank of Captain in the Afghan Army. Joined the Indian Revolutionary Party in Kabul and indulged in anti-British propaganda. Fearing arrest, he fled from Kabul and arrived in Chamarkand in January 1922. Subsequently he went to the Tribal Territory, and proclaiming himself a Captain of the Army in Yaghistan tried to recruit Indians to join the Army, for the liberation of India. Failing in his mission he again went to Kabul where he was interned for 4l/2 months. Later, however, he was appointed Inspector of Schools at Jalalabad. Continued to engage in revolutionary intrigues and was in. touch with the Russian Legation at Kabul. As a result of differences of opinion with Mir Rahmatullah Humayun (R-3) and his other associates in Kabul, he called at the British Legation in April 1925 and asked for permission to return to his home in Amritsar. His request was turned down and he again came to notice in August 1925 in connection with Soviet schemes directed against India, and was reported to be intending to make a tour in Tribal Territory to alienate the sympathies of the tribes from the British Government. In January 1929 the Government of India agreed to his being allowed to return to India. Was reported to have been arrested at Kabul in March 1929 on suspicion of pro-Amanullah sympathies, but was subsequently released. Sent a wireless message to the "Inqilab" of Lahore, in November 1929, announcing the formation of a "National Help Society" in Kabul. In a letter dated 29th March 1930 to the "Milap" of Lahore he gave an account of his talk with Raja Mahendra Pratap, about his intention of organizing a jatha to assist Mr. Gandhi in his Civil Disobedience campaign. Was said to have been a paid agent of the Soviet Embassy at Kabul. Returned to India without a passport, and came to notice at Lahore on 29th April 1930. Spoke at a meeting of the Amritsar War Council on 20th May 1930, exhorting the audience to have ’Independence' as their goal, and declaring that he would in future devote himself to the cause of his country. Was said to have been in touch with a party of bomb-makers, as a consequence of which his house was searched, but nothing of importance was, however, found. At about this time he was reported to have decided, in conjunction with a few others, to form a separate Communist organization of Northern India and have it affiliated with the Third International. Was arrested under Regulation III of 1818 on 28th August 1930 and interned in the Ambala Central Jail.

Description : Age about 45 years; height 5'-9"; strong build; fan- complexion; prominent nose; bright and prominent eyes.