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Lal Chand

Village: Gondpur

City: Hoshiarpur

Lal Chand, son of Jawahir Ram, of Gondpur, P. S. Una District Hoshiarpur. He was educated locally and went to British East Africa with one Raman of his village and worked as a fuel contractor at Voi. He returned to India twice and went back. He was convicted in a conspiracy to dynamite the Uganda Railway, and sentenced to death, the sentence subsequently being commuted to one of 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment. He was released about March 1919 and returned to India. He again left for Nairobi where he worked in a firm of lawyers known as Stevens and Kindall, in August 1921. He is still in Africa with his family, and is said to be politically minded.

Description : Wheat complexion; age 35/36 years; height 5’-6”; broad face; shaven beard.