Sewa Singh, Chakwalia, son of Jiwan Singh, Village Chakwal, District
Jhelum. He matriculated from the Khalsa High School, Chakwal about
1924, and thereafter was reported to have taken part in Guru-ka-Bagh
affair and to have worked as a clerk in the office of the Shiromani
Gurudwara Parbhandak Committee. He is said to have gone to Persia
about 1925-26. In 1926 he was reported to be in charge of Messrs. Mota
Singh Partap Singh, the Eastern Persian agents of the Ango-Persian Oil
Co., and to be a professed Akali. In Persia he was actively engaged in the
interests of the 'Kirti' collecting money for it from motor drivers many of
whom were Russians and Turks of Bolshevik sympathies, and was
evidently an importing agent of the "Kirti". Towards the middle of 1929
he paid a brief visit to India and went back to Sistan. On 26th May 1930
he sent two telegrams, one to the President of the Congress Committee
and the other to His Excellency the Viceroy, praying in the former for the
success of the Congress activities, and in the latter denouncing the
Government for Mahatma Ghandhi's arrest. While in Persia he acted as an
agent of the Ghadr Party in the distribution of revolutionary literature,
and was in correspondence with the Ghadr Party headquarters in
California. About the end of 1930, a revolutionary poster, reported to
have been received from the Ghadr Party, threatening the murder of one
hundred British Officers in the event of Bhagat Singh's (murderer of a
Police officer in India) execution was seen in his shop at Birjand, Sistan,
Persia. He was expelled from Persia early in 1931 and arrived at Quetta
on the 27th of February and left for Amritsar on the 1st of March. While there
he is reported to have stated that he used to get revolutionary literature,
pamphlets, and posters, etc., from the Ghadr Party headquarters via the
air route. He arrived at his home in March 1931, and in October 1931
was reported to have evaded surveillance and gone to Saharanpur district.
About the middle of 1932 he was reported to be running the Punjab
Business House at Ahmedabad, selling swords and kirpans.
Description : Age about 30 years; height 5'-6"; medium build inclined to
fatness; fair complexion; oval face with faint pox marks; hair black;
unkempt beard; prominent nose; small eyes.