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Mangal Singh

City: Lalpura

Mangal Singh, son of Sharam (Sarmukh, or Swaran) Singh, Jat, of Lalpura, P. S. Tam Tam, District Amritsar. He went to Canada after serving for about 5 or 6 years in the 56th Sikhs F. F. and is also reported to have served in the Police Force at Hong Kong. He attended a seditious meeting at Sacramento in America and was a passenger on the S.S. "Korea" and "Tosha Maru". On the voyage to India, he was one of those who were deputed to obtain arms from the sepoys at Penang. He was arrested and interned on arrival in India and subsequently sentenced by the Lahore Tribunal in 1915 to transportation for life for having been involved in the Ghadr conspiracy. He was released from jail under the Royal Amnesty of December 1919 and thereafter became an associate of Bhag Singh Canadian (B-47), and other revolutionary Akalis connected with the Kirti propaganda. In 1928 he was reported to be plying a lorry on the Peshawar-Kabul Road, but now-a-days he lives at Chauk Farid Hall Bazar, Amritsar, and plies his lorry on the Amritsar-Jullundur Road. In June 1932 he was reported to have acted as an intermediary between Gurmukh Singh of Kabul (G-54) and the Indian Ghadrites for the smuggling of arms. Owns landed property.

Description : Age about 49 years; wheat complexion; stout build; round face; streaked beard; medium height.