Ajit Singh, alias Mirza Hassan Khan, alias M. Farias, alias Marshall Antonio Farias, son of Arjan Singh, Jat, Sikh, and uncle of Bhagat Singh, executed for the murder of a Police Officer, Village Khatkar Kalan, District Jullundur. He first came to notice as an agitator in 1907 when he joined Lajpat Rai, Kishan Singh and others and organized a series of meetings in Lahore at which many seditious speeches were delivered to protest against the Canal Colonization Bill. Some of Aiit Sineh's sneedm* deported to Mandalay in May. He was released in November and his return to the Punjab was celebrated with great popular demonstrations. He soon got into touch with the notorious revolutionary, the late Sufi Amba Parshad, and published a number of seditious pamphlets through the medium of the Bharat Mata Book Agency. He later fled with Amba Parshad and Zia-ul-Haq to Persia to escape prosecution and went to Europe in 1911 where he was a teacher of Oriental Languages at Lausanne and afterwards at Geneva under the assumed name of Mirza Hassan Khan. At the end of 1913 he went to Paris where he got into touch with the Revolutionary party headed by Madame Cama and Krishnavarma. In September of the following year he went to Rio de Janiero with a message to Jodh Singh of Bewal to the effect that revolutionary work was awaiting him in Berlin. He helped the Ghadr Party with funds for propaganda against the British. Efforts were made by the Ghadr Party to get Ajit Singh to visit the United States on a lecturing tour but without success. In January 1921 he was chicken farming near Buenos Ayres under the name of Marshall Antonio Farias. In 1929 he was reported to have settled down in Rio de Janiero. Brazil, and to be working as a furniture merchant under the name of H. Khan and Co., which failed subsequently. About the year 1930 the Ghadr Party tried to get him over to California, principally for the advertisement that they thought an uncle of the notorious Bhagat Singh would give them, but he was reported to have postponed his trip apparently to avoid the risks involved. In July 1932 it was reported that Teja Singh Sutantar (T-8) was endeavoring to secure a monopoly for the sale of Brazilian coffee in Turkey and other countries and that Ajit Singh was to have similar responsibilities in respect of Persia, Mesopotamia, Afghanistan and India. In September Ajit Singh paid a visit to the Argentine from Brazil, where, according to an article published in the "Hindustan Ghadr" for November 1932, a warm reception was accorded to him by the local Ghadr Party and an address of welcome was also presented. In the address references were made to the sacrifices rendered by Ajit Singh and his nephew Bhagat Singh in the service of the country and also to the gift of 5,000 books of different languages and a typewriter .to the library of the Ghadr Party—known as the Bhagat library—by Ajit Singh. Shortly afterwards Ajit Singh sailed for Europe, travelling via Lisbon under the name of H. Khan, by which he is usually known. About the middle of October he arrived in Paris and was there till December. The negotiations with Turkey which were conducted through Teja Singh Sutantar having failed. Ajit Singh and his associates, two of whom are Brazilians and a third a Syrian Jew, were reported to have been trying to secure contracts for the sale of Brazilian coffee in Persia and Iraq. Two of his associates left Paris for Basra where a large quantity of coffee had been shipped from Brazil in September but Ajit Singh remained behind in order to collect letters of recommendation to important people in Iraq and Persia. It was further reported that these negotiations were purely commercial and no political intrigues were involved therein and it was not considered likely that Ajit Singh would try and make his way to India, though it was surmised that he might visit Persia and Iraq, etc., in connection with his business. He left Paris for Berlin on the 10th January 1933, apparently holding Brazilian passport No. 1450, date not given, which describes him as having been born in Brazil. He is at present in Berlin assisting Karta Ram (K-28) in his guttapercha business.

Description : Age about 52 years; height 5'-6"; thin build; clean shaven; pale face; wears glasses when reading.