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Roda Singh

South Andaman, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

December 29, 2022 to December 29, 2023

Roda Singh, son of Wasawa Singh was a resident of Roda, Bhagapurana, Ferozpur of Punjab. He was arrested in the First Lahore Conspiracy Case. The Lahore Conspiracy Case trial or First Lahore Conspiracy Case of 1915, was a series of trials held in Lahore (then part of the undivided Punjab of British India), and in the United States, in the after of the failed Ghadar conspiracy from 26 April to 13 September 1915. The trial was held by a Special tribunal constituted under the Defence of India Act 1915. Roda Singh was one of the 45 accused who was sentenced for transportation for life on 13 September 1915 and the greater number of the accused had been concerned were the gatherings at Jhar Sahib in the Amritsar District in November 1914, those at Gujrawal and Lohatbadi in the Ludhiana District and Nabha state in January and February 1915, the abortive raid on the Ferozepore cantonment in February 1915, and that on the Kapurthala State magazine in June 1915. Roda Singh was charged under sections 121 (Waging war) and 121-A (Conspired to wage war) of the Indian Penal Code. He was transported to the Cellular Jail of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands and deported to Andaman in January 1916. He was released in 1930.

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