Prithi Singh, Azad, son of Kundan Singh, of Ambala Cantonment. Served as an overseer during the Great War and subsequently took part in the Akali movement, the Guru-ka-Bagh incident, for which he was prosecuted and convicted. Later he moved to Patiala where he was a member of the Tahsil Akali Jatha, and during 1924 and 1925 delivered several objectionable speeches, as a consequence of which the State authorities sentenced him to one year's imprisonment. Was reported in 1927 to be attempting to cross the border surreptitiously, and in the following year to be trying to start a political journal in Gurmukhi, entitled "Kirti Ajadi" (Free Labor), in Calcutta and to have prevailed upon the Kirti Dal of Bengal to give him monetary and other assistance. Was reported in 1929 to be a prominent member of the Kirti Dal of Bengal, to be a close associate of Balwant Singh Pardeshi, (B-28), and to own a German made pistol. In 1929 the Ghadr Party proposed to send him to Moscow for military training. A Communist and a member of the Sikh revolutionary group in Calcutta. Was reported in November 1932 to be intending to correspond under the assumed name of P. Belim with Rattan Singh (R-36) at Berlin and also the League Against Imperialism, soliciting financial help for the carrying on of communist propaganda in Calcutta and its suburbs. At a secret meeting at 118-A, Ashutosh Mukherjee Road, he said that he had decided upon a plan for monetary help from abroad according to which articles from Russia could be indented for from Russia through Rattan Singh in Berlin who would defray their cost to the Russian concerns, and that they in their turn could sell them and thereby raise funds for Communist propaganda. Was recently arrested in connection with the find of bombs at Ganga Prasad Mukherjee Road, Calcutta, on 15th February 1933, but was released for want of evidence.

Description : Age about 35 years.