Jagat Ram, alias Sant Ram, son of Ditta Ram, Brahmin of Hariana,
District Hoshiarpur. He left for America in November 1911. He was one
of Har Dayal's right hand men in his Ghadr campaign on the West Coast
of America. He was described in a letter to Ajit Singh as doing "a very
great deal of work" for the Ghadr Party. He is stated to have some
knowledge of bomb-making and to have visited Jawala Singh's (J-19)
farm at Stockton to try experiments. He was one of the leaders of the
party in colleague with Jawala Singh, which left San Francisco by s.s.
"Korea" on 29th August 1914. He disembarked at Yakohama and went to
Tokyo. After consulting the other leaders Jawala Singh (J-19), and Kesar
Singh (K-48), he gave instructions to Amar Singh (A-19), and Ram
Rakha of village Sahiba, district Hoshiarpur, an absconder in the Lahore
Conspiracy Case, in some special mission believed to be that of acquiring
arms. He disembarked from s.s. "Korea" at Manila taking with him all the
arms and bundles of seditious literature which had been collected by
Amar Singh and Pirthi Singh. He rejoined the party at Hong Kong where
he was elected a member of the Central Committee to carry on a
campaign in India. He arrived in India by the s.s. "Tosha Maru" in
October 1914 and was reported to have attempted to smuggle six or seven
revolvers offthe ship. While busy in furthering the "cause" in the Punjab,
he was arrested at Peshawar and interned. He was sent up for trial in the
Lahore Conspiracy Case and was sentenced to death, the sentence
subsequently being commuted to one oftransportation for life. He was in
Gujrat Central Jail in 1931 and was suspected to be sending letters
surreptitiously. He is still in Jail.