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Was born around the turn of the century, the son of Bhai Variam
Singh Brar and Mai Nand Kaur, a peasant couple of village Lande
in the present Farldkot district of the Punjab. He took pahul of
the Khalsa and joined the first shahidi jatha, or a band of Akali
volunteers, ready for martyrdom, who were marching towards Jaito,
a town in the then Nabha state, to win the right of freedom of worship
in the historical Gurdwara Gangsar there. As the jatha approached
the outskirts of Jaito on the morning of 21 February 1924, it was
fired upon by the state security forces. A bullet pierced Bhai Kapur
Singh's body through the hips. Some comrades carried him to Gurdwara
Tibbi Sahib where he succumbed to his injury. The state police took
away his body for mass cremation along with twenty odd other victims
of the firing. Bhai Kapur Singh was unmarried and had already lost
his parents.
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