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Wasdev Singh

Village: Punwan

City: Gurdaspur

Wasdev Singh, alias Ishar Singh (real name Teja Singh), son of Mula Singh, Village Punwan, P. S. Dera Baba Nanak, District Gurdaspur. He studied up to the 8th Class in the Dharmkot School and was later engaged as Secretary by Teja Singh Giani of Aloona (T-8). He was reported to have gone to Kabul about August 1924 and obtained some kind of employment under the Amir of Afghanistan. He visited his home in 1925 and returned to Kabul after a short time. While in Kabul he was reported to have associated with Raja Mahendra Pratap and other revolutionaries, to have corresponded with his brother-in-law, the notorious Teja Singh Sutantar (T-8), and to have been receiving such prescribed publications as "Tarikh-i-Hind" by Bhai Parmanand and "British rule in India" by W.J. Biyan. In 1926 he was elected Financial Secretary of the Indian National Club, Kabul. About the end of 1927 he was the leader of the Ghadr Party in Afghanistan, in the absence of Gurmukh Singh (G-54) and Rattan Singh (R-36). In May 1928 he was reported to have been requested by the Nau Jawan Bharat Sabha to make arrangements for the participation of their representatives in the Asiatic Federation Conference, which was to be held in Kabul, under the patronage of the Bolsheviks and the Afghan Government. Later in 1929 he left Kabul, for training in the Eastern University at Moscow where he was reported to have acted as the Ghadr Party's representative. He returned to Kabul about the 26th of March 1932, and visited India shortly afterwards on some Ghadr Party errand. He was stated in a recent letter from Rattan Singh to Gurmukh Singh to have been appointed to a committee to Ghadrites who are apparently to be in charge of Ghadr Party activities against India through Persia. Was reported to have smuggled arms and money into India through the agency of motor drivers on the Peshawar-Kabul line, to carry on Bolshevik propaganda. He is generally regarded as a clever man and is known in communist circles as "Rex". He was arrested at Amritsar in August 1933 and has been interned under Regulation III of 1818.

Description : Age about 30 years; height 5-6"; physique thin; face round; complexion fair; hair black; point of chin almost hairless, with beard long on each side; dress European knows English and Gurmukhi and a little Persian.