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Karam Singh

Village: Dodher

City: Amritsar

K-19. Karam Singh, son of Chanda Singh, Village Dodher, P. O. Sirhali, District Amritsar. He was reported to be one ofthe leading members of the Indian seditionist party in Hankow in 1927. He arrived in Shanghai from Hankow in October 1927, and in the following month collected a sum of four hundred dollars which he sent to Ganda Singh of Santawala (G-5), in Nanking. He was arrested along with Mewa Singh, of village Bhasin, district Lahore, Naurang Singh Ghalli (N-37) and Sadhu Singh (S-2), for being concerned in the murder of Harcharan Singh on 6th March 1929 but was subsequently acquitted. He was re-arrested for making seditious speeches in June 1929 and after a month's imprisonment was deported to India under police escort on the 14th August 1929. It was reported that the "Kirti" of Amritsar had sent his photograph for reproduction in the official organ ofthe Communist Party ofGreat Britain and he was described as a big communist and a determined man who could handle arms, and, who, along with Naurang Singh and other deportees, was preparing to start a campaign of violence in the Punjab. He is a member ofthe Kirti Kisan Party ofthe Punjab and was reported to be working as a Sewadar in the Golden Temple, Amritsar in 1930. Dasaundha Singh (D-16), Master Gajjan Singh (G-3), and Bhag Singh (B-47), who are all members of the Kirti group, are his associates. Was ordered to be placed under surveillance on his arrival at his village and never to be recommended for a passport. Is absent from his village since 12th February 1932 and was reported to have gone to Shanghai on board a Chinese vessel and to have been in Penang in April 1932 where his application for a passport for Bangkok, Siam, was received. From there he went to Nanking and put up in the Headquarters of the Eastern Oppressed Peoples Association. Is an anti-Govemment propagandist.

Description : Age 32 years; sallow complexion; medium height; big beard.

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