Hans Rai, son of Gopal Chand, Village Rumi, P. S. Jagraon, District Ludhiana. He was educated at Jagraon where he showed a tendency towards sedition. He worked in the Army Department for nearly a year and went to Shanghai about the middle of 1919. He worked with a Sindhi firm which eventually collapsed. In 1921 he was employed by Wassumal Assumal & Co and was reported to be engaged in giving violent lectures to a number of Sikhs and to be receiving seditious literature from America and distributing it in Shanghai. According to his own statement he left India with the intention of going to America for study and perhaps to join the Ghadr Party. In March 1922 he was alleged to be trying to establish a secret society the members of which could learn how to manufacture bombs. He was an associate of Gajjan Singh, school master (G-3) and Karam Chand. He was dismissed by the firm of W. Assumal & Co. In September 1922 he went to Tientsin intending to go to Japan, but came back to Shanghai in November and obtained employment as a clerk in Ewo Cotton Mills through the efforts of his friend Mulchand. In March 1927 he was at Kobe, Japan, from which place he sent a letter to the General Secretary, Indian National Congress, Allahabad, offering himself as News Agent for the Congress in Japan. Is said to be dangerous and thoroughly immoral and unreliable.