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Salig Ram, Pandit

Village: Moela Wahidpur

City: Hoshiarpur

Salig Ram, Pandit, Son of Mahasha Ram, Brahmin, of Moela Wahidpur. P. S. Garhshankar, District Hoshiarpur. He was a member of the Ghadr Party which left San Francisco by the s. s. "Korea" on the 29th of August 1914. He returned to India by the s. s. "Tosha Maru" and joined the Ghadr dacoity party in the Punjab, and professed his readiness to assist in carrying out the schemes to the leaders who visited him. He stated that he had smuggled through, copies of the "Ghadr-di-Gunj" which he had given to the villagers to read. He was reported to be dangerous, and was arrested and interned in March 1915. Subsequently he was released and restricted to his village in September 1916. He has been keeping a shop of cereals for the last ten years, and is still reported to be interested in politics.

Description : Wheat complexion; age about 50 years; height 5’-9"; pock- pitted face; shaven beard; long pig-tails.