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.