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Sajjan Singh

Village: Narangwal

City: Ludhiana

Sajjan Singh, son of Mohan Singh, of Narangwal, P. S. Dehlon, District Ludhiana. He was a student in the Khalsa High School, Ludhiana, where he had shared a room with Anokh Singh, (an approver in the Supplementary Conspiracy Case—Untraced in 1932) of village Rampur, district Ludhiana. He was seduced by the seditionists and at once became a violent revolutionary, corrupting other students. He was employed as a confidential agent by Rash Behari Bose (R-32) and as an intermediary with the 23rd Cavalry. He was in the inner ring of the revolutionaries and one of the most active and dangerous workers. He was an absconder in the First Conspiracy Case but was arrested. He was sentenced in the Supplementary Case to transportation for life, and only escaped hanging by reason of his youth. The sentence was reduced to transportation for ten years. He escaped from the Hazari Bagh Central Jail but was recaptured and sentenced to a further term of two years' imprisonment. He was released conditionally under the Royal Amnesty from the Akola Jail in June 1923 and restricted to his village for 5 years. In 1924 he was found to be attempting to get into touch with Master Mota Singh (M-38) and to be carrying on surreptitious correspondence with notorious Ghadr prisoners in the Nagpur Jail, and in view of this his request for cancellation of restrictions was twice rejected. The restrictions were finally removed in January 1929. He is at present living in Chak No. 530- G.B., P. S. Samundri, District Lyallpur, and has not come to any adverse notice. Owns landed property. Associates with bad characters.

Description : Age 32 years; sallow complexion; long nose; height 5'-7"; round face; little finger of one hand broken; has studied up to the Matriculation class.