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Amar Singh

Village: Sherpura Kalan

City: Ludhiana

Amar Singh, son of Wariam Singh, Jat, of Sherpura Kalan, P. S. Jagraon, District Ludhiana. Is semi-educated and knows Gurmukhi. Went to Siam in 1903 and once returned home. Was a Surveyor on the railway in Siam, and a very important member of the Ghadr Party. In consultation with all the leaders of sedition is believed to have financed the Siam revolutionary movement to no small extent and to have concocted with Sohan Lal (hanged) the revolutionary mission to Burma, which cost Sohan Lal his life. Was a regular recipient and distributor of the Ghadr and used to correspond with the late Ram Chandra of Peshawar. Ajit Singh alias Hasan Khan (A-ll) stayed with him when he went to Manila. Was sentenced to death in the second Mandalay Conspiracy Case but the sentence was subsequently commuted to one of 25 years’ R.I. Is undergoing imprisonment in the Rangoon Central Jail. The question of his conditional release was taken up in 1929 and again in 1932 and 1933 but it was decided to postpone it.