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Hukam Singh

Village: Jamastpura

City: Amritsar

Hukam Singh, believed to be identical with Hukam Singh, son of Chet Singh, Jat, of Village Jamastpura, District Amritsar. He returned to India from America in August 1913 after an absence of six years and was mentioned by certain political internees in the Campbellpore jail in 1916 as a sympathizer of the Ghadr movement. He is reported to have served for two or three years in the Labor Corps and to have again left for America accompanied by his wife, children, and brother named Ganga Singh, about 1921. In 1931 it was reported that he was living in Victoria, B. C. and that he was not only a Ghadr Party supporter but also used to deliver speeches in its favor and contribute money to the Ghadr fund.