Gajjan Singh, son of Rattan Singh, of Gobindgarh, District Ludhiana. He
went to Shanghai in 1919 and was a teacher in a school until 1923, when
he was asked to resign his appointment on account of his advanced
political views. He subsequently took up the editorship of the "Hind
Jagawa" a thoroughly seditious newspaper, and was prosecuted in March
1925 and bound over for future good behavior. He then became
Secretary of the local Khalsa Diwan. Early in 1927 he was reported to
have paid several visits to the Soviet Consulate of Shanghai. He was
strongly suspected of complicity in the murder of Inspector Budha Singh
of the Shanghai Police. He was one of the accomplices of Dasaundha
Singh Mann (D-16) who had received instructions from the Ghadar Party
in America and from Moscow, to co-operate with M. N. Roy, the
notorious Indian Communist, and spread disaffection among the Indians
in China, and tamper with the loyalty of the Police and the Indian troops
stationed at Shanghai. He joined Dasaundha Singh in his efforts to
persuade Indian soldiers to desert to the Hankow Government with a view
to their training and subsequent employment by Moscow in Soviet
schemes directed against India. Leanets of a highly seditious nature were
distributed by him at meetings of the local Sikhs. He was arrested along
with Dasaundha Singh and Gainda Singh (G-l) in Chapei on the 5th May
1927 and sentenced to one year's imprisonment and subsequent
deportation. He was deported from Shanghai on 3rd March 1928 and on
arrival at Calcutta, was interned in the Midnapore jail under Regulation
III of 1818 and subsequently transferred to the Ludhiana jail from were
he was released in June 1929. In 1929 he interested himself in the Kirti
movement and endeavored with others of the party for the formation of a
"peasants' and Workers' Party". He claimed credit for the Khalsa College
bomb outrage. On the 9th of July 1930 he was sentenced to 3 months' R. I.
under Section 17(1) of the C.L.A. for participating in political
agitation. In April 1931 he was in Karachi, and it was suspected that his
activities in Sind were calculated to promote the interests of the Kirti
Kisan Party. Early in 1932 he was employed on the Sukkur Barrage. In
February 1932 his movements were restricted to Nawabshah for a period
of one month which was subsequently extended indefinitely. Throughout
this period he was closely connected with Dasaundha Singh and other
Kirti Kisan leaders. In August 1932 he was sent back to Ludhiana. He
was appointed Secretary of the Rajshi Qaidi Chhurao Committee formed
in 1933 to agitate for the release of the political prisoners of 1914-15. He is a persistent and probably an irreconcilable Kirti Kisan agitator, a
confirmed revolutionary, and a thoroughly dangerous man who has
evaded surveillance on several occasions.
Description : Age about 37 years; height 5'-6"; wheat complexion; long
black beard; stout build; round face; small eyes; dresses in khaddar.
Wears a black turban; knows Urdu, Gurmukhi and English.