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Was a granthi (officiant) at the gurdwara in Chakk No. 85 Dalla Chanda Singhvala in Sheikhupura, in the newly colonized irrigation district in western Punjab. Nothing is known about his parentage or the date and place of his birth. He had arrived at the village in the company of a Nanga sadhu as a boy of 10 or 12 years and had stayed on in the local gurdwara. He had learnt to read Gurmukhi and the holy text from the granthi whom he replaced after the latter had left. On the night of 19-20 February 1921, he was
participating in an akhand path, unbroken reading of the Guru Granth
Sahib, in a neighbouring village, when a jatha of reformist Akalis
under the leadership of Bhai Lachman Singh passed that way. The
jatha was proceeding to Nankana Sahib. Bachittar Singh had another
granthi replace him on the akhand path roster and joined the jatha
going to Nankana Sahib. At Nankana Sahib he, along with other members
of the jatha, was showered with bullets by the mahant's men. |
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