Iqbal Singh Hundal, alias Gopal Singh, son of Hakim Singh, Village Dhurial, P. S. Adampur, District Jullundur. Born 1900: he and three brothers left India as small children in 1912 and were taken to Vancouver, B. C., to their father, Hakim Singh, who was already employed there. About December 1919 Iqbal Singh left Vancouver and went to the University of California at Berkeley. Early in 1920 he started to take an interest in Ghadr Party affairs and attended a Ghadr Party meeting at Sacramento. Shortly afterwards he left San Francisco and joined the University of Washington in Seattle, where he remained until 1923. He there took a course in military science, aviation and civil engineering. He afterwards graduated (B.Sc.) in medical engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Early in 1927 he was elected President of the Hindustan Young Men's Association, Vancouver. At the end of 1928 he took an active part in the formation of a Canadian branch of the Indian National Congress in Vancouver. Early in 1930 he went to Eastern Canada to take up employment in the General Motors factory in Oshawa. About this time the Ghadr Party were talking of sending him to Russia for revolutionary training for eventual propaganda in India. He left Oshawa in January 1931 and proceeding to San Francisco, joined the Aviation School ofthe Ghadr Party in April 1931. He lived at the Ghadr Asharam and was reported to have been specially deputed by Teja Singh Sutantar (T-8) to take up the study of military science. At about the same time he was stated to have been studying manuals describing the methods of blowing up bridges and destroying railway tracks. He was the correspondence Secretary of the Secret Board of the Party for 1930 and 1931. In October 1931 he was reported to have been sent to Moscow, where he is believed to have received instructions in revolutionary propaganda work. He is believed to have arrived in India recently.

Description : Age about 33 years; height 5-6"; heavy build; fat black hair; small dark eyes; small nose, large mouth; very round fat face; expression always smiling; dressed in dark brown suit and soft hat.