Nidhan Singh

Nidhan Singh, son of Sunder Singh was a resident of Ferozepur in Punjab. He was arrested in First Lahore Conspiracy Case. Initially, a Death sentence was awarded to him which was later commuted to transportation for life. Nidhan Singh was one of the 45 accused who was sentenced for transportation for life 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. Nidhan Singh was one of those 98 accused to be charged under sections 121 (Waging war), 121-A (Conspired to wage war), 122, 124-A, 131, and 395 of the Indian Penal Code. The judgment by the Special Tribunal by the Order of Lieutenant Governor of Punjab on the complaint of H. V. B. Hare-Scott, Superintendant of Police, CID, was given in 1916 in the effect of which he was transported to the Andaman Islands. In this judgment, it was mentioned that “the result of the trial will be to give a further blow to the Sikh revolutionary movement in Punjab, which for the time being is dormant, if not quite dead”.