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Jagat Ram

Village: Hariana

City: Hoshiarpur

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.