Randhir Singh, son of Natha Singh, of Naurangwal, District Ludhiana. He is an under-graduate. His father was Legal Remembrancer in the Nabha State. Randhir Singh was a house master in the Khalsa College and later worked as a temporary Naib-Tahsildar on plague duty. He is a local head of the Akali sect of the Sikhs and is held in veneration in the Malwa tract. During the Rikabganj Gurdwara agitation in 1914 he came into prominence at meetings at Bhasor in Patiala and at Patti in Lahore and ordered Bhagat Singh of village Ballowal, district Ludhiana (a Ghadrite who was made an approver in the Supplementary Case) to preach sedition in the villages when the agitation was unsuccessful. Owing to his influence a number of young students and others were seduced into joining the Ghadr Party. He associated with the returned emigrant revolutionaries and led a section of the party that went to attack the Ferozepore Cantonment in February 1915. He was by no means a leader and took his orders from Kartar Singh of Sarabha (hanged). He was arrested and sent for trial in the Supplementary Conspiracy Case. In his defense one hundred witnesses were produced and there was a display of perjury, fabricated evidence and lying, unusual even in an Indian Court; many of the witnesses, too; being of respectable position. He was sentenced to transportation for life. In 1920 a petition requesting for his release was received by the Local Government but it was refused. Three years later he was found to be concerned in carrying on surreptitious correspondence with his Akali friends in the Punjab and complicity with Master Mota Singh (M-38) and Kartar Singh (K-32) while he was imprisoned in the Nagpur Central jail. The question of extending clemency to Randhir Singh was taken up in 1928 but the Local Government were not in favour of his release. He was, however, released on 4th October 1930 subject to Police surveillance for one year. He became the editor of the "Akali-te-Pardesi" of which the first issue appeared on 19th March 1931. Since his release from jail, he has been leading the life of a hermit and is held in great veneration by the Akalis of the province.