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Tajammul Hussain Syed

Village: Peshawar

City: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Tajammul Hussain, Syed, alias Shahji of Peshawar. He is a Matriculate and migrated to Afghanistan in 1919, with a few other Indians, whence he proceeded to Russia where he remained for about five years in the company of other Indian Communists. He was in Teheran, Persia for three years, and latterly went to Meshed and thence to Birjand in 1927, where he worked as an ironsmith. He was reported to be a member ofthe Ghadr Party in Persia and a great friend of Sewa Singh Chakwalia (S-30), and on the expulsion of the latter in 1931 was intending to take over the Ghadr agency. About the middle of 1931 he went to Teheran and was reported to be mixing with Amrik Singh (A-24), of Thanil Kamal, district Jhelum, and maintaining regular communication with Meshed. He was arrested with Sewa Singh about April 1931 but was released. He is also reported to have been in touch with the Soviet Vice-Consul in Sistan in regard to the desirability of opening up closer communications with Russia, and to have promised to undertake the dissemination of seditions literature such as "Ghadr" newspaper, in Persia. He was called to Teheran, where after being kept for a year, he was repatriated to India.