Banta Singh (Aged 25) was born in 1890 in Sangval, Jalandhar district, Punjab, India. He became a Ghadr revolutionary and after completing his school education, he went to the US for further studies. In 1914, he returned to India with a revolutionary spirit.
Banta Singh established a school and panchayat in his village, distributed Ghadr literature, and encouraged people to join the movement to expel the British from India. He advocated for sabotage, including tampering with railway lines and cutting telephone wires. While procuring firearms in Lahore, he was detected by two policemen but managed to escape.
On May 2, 1915, Banta Singh attended a meeting of a Ghadr group where a plan was made to attack the magazine at Kapurthala to seize firearms. Two groups were formed to attack the guard at the Valla bridge, near Mananvala railway station in Amritsar district, with Banta Singh leading one of the groups. On the night of June 11-12, 1915, Banta Singh attacked the guard and captured six service rifles and 200 cartridges.
The government offered a reward of two squares of land and two thousand rupees in cash to anyone who caught Banta Singh. Partap Singh, a close relative of Banta Singh from Jaura village, Hoshiarpur district, arrested him on June 25, 1915. Banta Singh was tried in the Central Jail, Lahore, under martial law, along with four others in the Valla railway bridge case, and sentenced to death in 1915.
Banta Singh
(1890 – 1915) – (Punjab)
Banta Singh (Aged 25) was born in 1890 in Sangval, Jalandhar district, Punjab, India. He became a Ghadr revolutionary and after completing his school education, he went to the US for further studies. In 1914, he returned to India with a revolutionary spirit.
Banta Singh established a school and panchayat in his village, distributed Ghadr literature, and encouraged people to join the movement to expel the British from India. He advocated for sabotage, including tampering with railway lines and cutting telephone wires. While procuring firearms in Lahore, he was detected by two policemen but managed to escape.
On May 2, 1915, Banta Singh attended a meeting of a Ghadr group where a plan was made to attack the magazine at Kapurthala to seize firearms. Two groups were formed to attack the guard at the Valla bridge, near Mananvala railway station in Amritsar district, with Banta Singh leading one of the groups. On the night of June 11-12, 1915, Banta Singh attacked the guard and captured six service rifles and 200 cartridges.
The government offered a reward of two squares of land and two thousand rupees in cash to anyone who caught Banta Singh. Partap Singh, a close relative of Banta Singh from Jaura village, Hoshiarpur district, arrested him on June 25, 1915. Banta Singh was tried in the Central Jail, Lahore, under martial law, along with four others in the Valla railway bridge case, and sentenced to death in 1915.
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