Pandit Parmanand

Pandit Parmanand was a revolutionary freedom fighter of India. He was connected with the Gaddar movement while in Singapore. He had contact with the 5th mohammadan platoon and the 35th Sikh regiment there. He enthused them to rise in revolt against the British Raj. Authorities tried to nab him but he went underground and surfaced back in India. He was arrested in Lahore in 1915 and subsequently sentenced to death in the first Lahore Conspiracy Case. However, the sentence was ultimately commuted to life imprisonment and then he was sent to the Andamans jail. For thrashing a Superintended in the Cellular Jail, the sadist Bari, he was flogged. He was repatriated and released in 1922. He participated in the Civil disobedience movement in 1931 and Quit India Movement in 1942 and suffered various other imprisonment terms.

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Pandit Ram Rakha, Pando, Pandora, Pandours, Pandua Vidhan Sabha Constituency