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Kartar Singh

Village: Chand Jadid

City: Firozpur

Kartar Singh, alias Sher Singh, alias Sundar Singh, son of Sundar Singh, ofChand Jadid, P. S. Baghbanpura, District Ferozepore. He went abroad about 1906 and worked as a labourer and later as a real estate broker at Vancouver. There he preached sedition and made anti- Government speeches in the Vancouver Gurdwara, and also collaborated with Sham Singh in the production of a pamphlet entitled "Gora Shahi Zulam". He was a member ofthe "Komagata Mani" Committee and was arrested in the Hopkinson Murder Case but was released. He was reported by the Canadian authorities to be a persecutor ofloyal Indians at Vancouver. He returned from America in April 1915 and was arrested and interned. He was sent for trial in the Second Supplementary Lahore Conspiracy Case in 1917 and sentenced to transportation for life. He was a right hand man ofBalwant Singh (hanged) of village Sanghwal, district Jullundur, whom he accompanied from Vancouver to Shanghai with the avowed object of arranging plans for a general rising in India. In February 1932 he was ordered to be transferred from the Central Jail, Montgomery, to the Reclamation Adult Farm at Burewala where he will remain restricted for a period of 2 years and 2 months and will there after be released subject to 3 years police surveillance.

Description : Sallow complexion; thin build; age 40/45 years; height 5-5".

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