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Was born on December 1901, the son of Bhai Lal Singh and Mai Nand
Kaur, farmers of Chakk No. 64 Bandala Nihaloana, in Lyallpur (now
Faisalabad) district, in western Pakistan. Hazara Singh was drawn
into the Sikh movement for the reform of Gurdwara management, then
raging in the Punjab. He joined the jatha (corps of volunteers)
of Bhai Lachhman Singh of Dharovali which, on 20 February 1921,
met with a savage fate at the hands of the assassins hired for the
purpose by the custodian of the Sikh shrine of Nankana Sahib.
Some of the jatha were roasted alive upon a
pile of firewood sprinkled with kerosene oil. Hazara Singh was one
of the three persons who could be recognized even after the blaze
had swept through them.
Hazara Singh was survived by his wife and infant
daughter. The family declined to receive any relief or pension sanctioned
by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee for the martyr.
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