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Jita Singh

Village: Bahowal

City: Hoshiarpur

J-28. Jita Singh, alias Narindar Singh, son of Ram Singh, of Bahowal, P. S. Mahilpur, District Hoshiarpur. He was an associate ofBhagwan Singh of village Viring, district Amritsar (a former leader of the Ghadr Party), at Vancouver, where he was reported to be seditious and on the outbreak of the war preached mutiny. He was a "Tosha Maru" passenger, and on arrival in India was interned. He was sent for trial in the Second Supplementary Case, but was acquitted. He left for Shanghai in 1922, from where he proceeded to America. In 1929 he was reported to be a regular quarterly subscriber to the Ghadr Party on behalf of the Kirti fund. He has not returned to India so far, and his present address is Yuba City, California.