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.