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Sewa Singh, Chakwalia

Village: Chakwal

City: Jhelum

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.