Narain Singh, son of Ishar Singh, of Balkashar, District Jhelum. He had been doing business as a trader in Persia for many years, and came to notice for the first time in 1921 when he was found to be at the bottom of all the seditious activities and objectionable propaganda which was carried on against the British Government in Persia during the Nankana agitation. He had his headquarters at Duzdap, which soon became the centre ofsubversive activities. Shortly after the Nankana tragedy he went to the Punjab with the notorious Akali, Dayl Singh, and took part in the agitation there. He returned to Duzdap in March and on account of his revolutionary proclivities, was bound down in the sum of Rs. 5,000 but the order was soon cancelled on the remonstrances of the other Sikhs in Duzdap. In December 1921 he collected large sums of money for the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee and also for the Akali movement. In March 1924 he collected an Akali Jatha and took it from Duzdap to Amritsar to join the Jaito Morcha. While there he contributed objectionable articles to the daily "Akali". He was arrested in Nabha and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. In 1929 he accompanied one Mathra Singh (a suspected Bolshevik) on a tour through Persia and was reported to be assisting the Soviet Consul at Sistan and the Consulate- General at Meshed. In 1930 he visited India ostensibly to attend the Lahore Congress, but it was thought possible that he had been deputed to do so by the Soviet officials in Persia. In March 1931 it was definitely established that he was a prominent worker of the Ghadr Party. At this time he was reported to be in communication with Sewa Singh of Chakwal (S-30). In July 1931 he applied to the British Legation for a visa for America and other countries and it was believed that the journey was to be undertaken to assist the Ghadr Party in re-organising their arrangements in Persia, which had lately received several set-backs or to assist them by his local knowledge to devise other means of communication with India through Persia. The visa was refused. In December 1931 he was implicated in smuggling silver out of Birjawa in Buta Singh's (B-86) car. He arrived at his home in the Punjab in June 1932, and was under surveillance for some time. His return to Persia was considered undersirable and his passport was impounded, but subsequently on giving an undertaking to abstain from sedition he was granted a passport on the recommendation of the Government of India. He arrived in Quetta on the 25th September 1932, en route to Persia via Nok Kundi.