Moti Ram, alias Muktanand, Arora, alias Swami Muktanand, B. A., alias Guru Dutt Kumar, alias G. D. Kumar, son of Buta Ram Kumar, originally of village Makhad, Attock district and subsequently of Bai Khel, P. S. Moch, District Mianwali. It has been established that Moti Ram alias Swami Muktanand is identical with Guru Dutt Kumar alias G. D. Kumar. The Swami is believed to have left his home at the age of 16 in 1888 to join the Sadhus at Pind Dadan Khan, Jhelum district. Subsequently he left them and studied at Benares and Allahabad. From 1896 to 1906 he worked as a clerk in the Commissariat Department at Rawalpindi from where he graduated. Subsequently he adopted the name of Guru Dutt Kumar and under this name worked as a professor in the National College at Calcutta in 1907 and in the same year went to America. He arrived at Victoria, B. C., on the 31st of October 1907 and started a grocery store there with the help of the notorious Tarak Nath Das (one of the leading figures in the revolutionary party on the West Coast of America shortly before and during the Great War). Immediately afterwards he joined in the seditious campaign which had already been started by the latter and went to live at Seattle where he was in constant touch with him. At the end of 1909 G. D. Kumar returned to Vancouver, where he started a Gurmukhi monthly paper called the "Swadeshi Sewak", the entry of which into India was prohibited in March 1911. In 1913 he went to Manila where he was engaged in supervising the work of the Ghadr Party in the Far East. Amongst the correspondence of Hamam Singh of Sahri, the bomb-maker, who was hanged in the Burma Conspiracy Case, was found a large number of letters from G. D. Kumar which proved that he had an intimate knowledge of the whole of the organization and of the origin of the "Komagata Maru" expedition. He was in constant touch with Bhagwan Singh (formerly leader of the Ghadr Party) and the late Barkatuallah of Bhopal and his correspondence also showed that he was collecting money for the Ghadr Party and sending it to Har Dyal. Later he went to Japan, and as far as is known, has not re- visited the U. S. A., since 1913. In the autumn of 1914, he was busy at Yokohama, meeting ships carrying parties of Ghadr revolutionaries on their way to India. He left Japan on 7th November 1914 with a party of about 150 by the S.S. "Mongolia", but does not seem to have accompanied them beyond Manila. On his return to India, he is reported to have adopted the name of Swami Muktanand and to have taken up his residence at Hardwar where he became a clerk to Babu Joti Sarup, Vakil of Dehra Dun and Bhimgoda, Hardwar, and is also said to have been a tutor to Mahant Khushal Bharti and Karam Chand, Hony. Magistrate, Hardwar. In a statement made to the Police by one Banta Singh of Sangwal, it was mentioned that G. D. Kumar was living in Hardwar in April 1915, under the assumed name of Swami Muktanand. He took an active part in the Kartarpur (Jawalapur) riot case of 1918 in consequence of which he was sentenced to 10 years' R. I. On his release in 1926 the Swami led the life of a Sanyasi for some time in Hardwar and was reported to be an active congressman. In 1928 he became President of the Bharat Yuvak Sangha, Delhi. Thereafter he participated in seditious activities in Delhi, Hardwar and elsewhere. Towards the end of 1929 he was arrested under Section 124-A for delivering objectionable speeches in Hardwar, was convicted and eventually sentenced to 3 months' simple imprisonment in Junuaiy 1930. He was re-arrested under Section 109 C. P. C., during the Congress session at Delhi in 1932, but was released shortly afterwards. He is reported to have made a number of objectionable speeches in Delhi during the past few years. Quite recently he is said to have discussed with the local Congress leaders the question of reviving the activities of the Nau Jawan Bharat Sabha in Delhi. The Swami has tried to hide his identity by assuming different names at different time but there is every reason to believe that he is identical with G. D. Kumar of Paikhel.

Description : (of the Swami in 1933): Age 67 years; wheat complexion; small eyes; long white beard and moustache.