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Amrik Singh

Village: Thanil Kamal

City: Jhelum

Amrik Singh, son of Jai Singh, Chadah Sikh, of Thanil Kamal, District Jhelum. A motor driver who was stated by Sewa Singh (S-30) to have been a prominent member of the Ghadr Party in East Persia in 1931. Amrik Singh acted as a courier to Sewa Singh and was alleged to have been involved in a plot to murder British officials in East Persia. In January 1932, the question of his deportation to India was taken up, and he was called to Teheran where after being kept for a year he was persuaded to return to India.