Fazal Elahi, Malik, alias Qurban, alias John Charles, son of Haji Malik Karam Elahi, an employee in the Punjab Government Press, caste Kakezai of Kucha Kakezain, Lahore City. Was a student in the Islamia High School, Lahore, where he developed strong fanatical religious views. Migrated to Afghanistan during the Hijrat movement of 1920 and there joined the party of the Indian Muhajirin headed by Mohammad Akbar Khan, a prominent pan-lslamist of the Frontier Province. After staying for a couple of months in Afghanistan he proceeded to Russia with the object of joining the Turks in Anatolia to fight against the Allies. On arrival at Tashkent he, along with other Muhajirin, was persuaded by M. N. Roy, the notorious Indian Communist, to join the Moscow Communist Party and Fazal Elahi accordingly joined the Moscow University to undergo training as a secret service agent of that party. While there he married a Russian wife and subsequently made his way to Germany where he studied engineering. Travelled extensively in Europe as a worker of the Soviet agency run by M. N. Roy for the dissemination of Communist literature in India. In December 1926 he travelled from Marseilles to India under the assumed name of P. P. Mookerjee holding a bogus passport. Visited a number of places in India, including possibly Lahore, where he delivered messages to the Indian Communists on behalf of M. N. Roy and was endeavoring to return to Europe when he was arrested at Bombay being in possession of Communist literature and a sum of Rs. 1,260 in cash. He was prosecuted at Peshawar under Section 121-A, I. P. C. and sentenced to 5 years' R. I. (reduced to 3 years' R. I. on appeal) on 6th August 1927 was released from the Lahore Central Jail on 16th November 1929. He soon threw in his lot with members of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Lahore, and attended most of the political meetings held at Lahore. Was taken on the staff of the Workers' Home, established by the Punjab Provincial Naujawan Bharat Sabha for the purpose of training national workers. Is believed to have visited Meerut secretly in order to interview the under-trial prisoners in the Meerut Conspiracy Case, in July 1930. Associated with Abdul Warris, a Moscow trained propagandist, and Ghulam Mohammed Aziz (G-17), a fanatic and a revolutionary, and conspired with them to re-establish their connection with the Third International in Moscow. Was consequently interned in September 1930 in the Dharamsala Jail under Regulation III of 1818.