Who is Hukum Chand from Train to Pakistan and what is their importance? Train_to_Pakistan English & Literature Hukum Chand | Train to Pakistan

The regional magistrate and a fat and lecherous man with a guilty conscience, Chand is a consequential character in the book. While a corrupt leader, Chand constantly tries to redeem himself for his sins and is brought to a turning point through his guilt over wanting to deflower a prostitute that was the age his daughter would be had she lived. To save the local Muslims, Chand releases Iqbal and Jugga to Mano Majra in order for him to find time to distract the mobs that would almost certainly kill them and for Iqbal and Jugga to stop the Sikh ambush of the train.