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A militant and religious extremist. He was also the Founder of Babbar Khalsa, President and Jathedar of Babbar Khalsa Indian and Canada region born in Kapurthala, Punjab, India was a Canadian-Sikh terrorist and founder of the Pan-Sikhi militant organization Babbar Khalsa which is designated as an international terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, and India. Under Talwinder Singh Parmar leadership, Babbar Khalsa was responsible for the June 23 attack in the Canada, and many other mass-casualty attacks in India.
Jathedar Talwinder Singh Parmar (26 February 1944 – 15 October 1992)
Talwinder Singh Parmar, a man behind the creation of Babbar Khalsa terror org, moved to Canada in 1970 and became the leader of Babbar Khalsa International in 1979.
It is officially banned and designated as an international terrorist organisation by several countries.
Canada banned the group in 2003.
European Union
India
Japan
Malaysia
United Kingdom
United States, In April 2004, the United States added BKI and the ISYF, to its terror list, allowing the US to deny entry (and to deport) any of its members.
According to C. Christine Fair, Babbar Khalsa was opposed to Bhindranwale and more concerned with propagating sectarian violence and enforcing Sikh personal law than supporting Khalistan movement.
The group receives funds and support from its supporters within the Sikh community, that are largely located in Europe and North America. Historically, to get the financial and material support needed for operating terrorist activities, BKI has used in-person meetings, public rallies and fundraising events.
Jathedar Talwinder Singh Parmar organized and featured at Sikh rallies and fundraisers across Canada. Parmar was instrumental in channeling financial support to BKI from overseas Sikh communities. BKI is sponsored by Germany-based extremist organisations with an aim to revive an armed conflict in the Indian Punjab.
BKI militants have their presence outside of India in Pakistan, North America, Europe and Scandinavia. BKI at present is active in the US, Canada, the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and Pakistan. BKI continues its operations from Pakistan with the support of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). According to Indian sources the group has its headquarters in Lahore, Pakistan.
Babbar Khalsa kept up a low level of activity until 1983. Very few security personnel may have become members of Babbar Khalsa.
Some terrorists acts done in Canada, India and Germany have been claimed in the name of Babbar Khalsa. During his residence in Canada, Parmar continued to lead BKI activities. He was involved in terror financing, recruitment and radicalization of Sikh youths, procurement of small arms and explosives, and the development and coordination of terrorist attacks. After Operation Blue Star, the organisation fell into disarray but was able to regroup and remained active.
Early life
November 1975 - Dara Sahib, Lahore, Pakistan
Jathedar Sahib was born February 26, 1944 at village Panchhat (tehsil Phagwara, district Kapurthala)in Sikh Rajput Family of Sardar Jamiat Singh and Mata Surjit Kaur in the village of Panchhat, district Kapurthala. Sardar Jamiat Singh had been married twice, the first marriage was with Bibi Dhan Kaur and had 3 daughters and one son, Bhai Mahinder Singh. The second marriage was with Mata Surjit Kaur in which they had 3 sons, Bhai Talwinder Singh, Bhai Swarn Singh and Bhai Kulwarn Singh.
Jathedar Sahib finished grade 10, then took over the day to day farming duties from his father. He married Bibi Surinder Kaur in 1964, and had three children. He then immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1970 and became a naturalized citizen of Canada when he was in his early twenties.
Nankana Sahib, 1975
In 1973, he started to do Nitnem and other paath. Later that year, his whole family started living in a manner befitting Sikhi. Jathedar Sahib took Amrit in 1975 at Panja Sahib, on Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji's gurpurb. His family took Amrit in 1976.
Talvinder Singh Parmar after taking Amrit at Nankana Sahib, at a hotel in near Panja Sahib
After getting Amrit, Jathedar Talvinder Singh started missionary activities. His first act was to stop the sale of Guru Granth Sahib as an ordinary book in Canada. Later, he undertook the mission of elimination of un-Sikh like practices from the Gurdwaras in Canada. He, along with his friends, had to struggle hard to stop the entry of bare-headed people into the worship halls of the Gurdwaras.
Militancy
During the late 1970's and early 1980’s, Jathedar Sahib travelled all over Canada and the United States, preaching about Sikhi. Jathedar Sahib was a great Sikh. His Nitnem consisted of 18 banis. He got up at 2am to do simran for 2 hours. He could do a Sahej Paath by himself in four days. He would do a 12-13 hour Rohl. After the horrific events of Amritsar 1978, when Bhai Fauja Singh and 12 other Gursikhs were killed, Jathedar Sahib decided to go to India to effect change.
In 1979, he quit his well paying job, his comfortable safe life, to go to India, and show the Punjabi people the Sikhi way of life. Jathedar Sahib started a group dedicated to the original Babbars known as the Akali Babbars.
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, 1977. The Singhs with the Khanda's on their dastars are founders of Babbar Khalsa, The name Babbar Khalsa is taken from the Babbar Akali Movement of 1920, which fought against the British Rule of India.
L to R - Unknown, Gurmit Singh, Unknown, Avtar Singh, Giani Lal Singh, Ajaib Singh, and Satnam Singh
The founders of the Akali Babbar movement were from the same city Vancouver, British Columbia. These brave fearless Sikhs also left a life of comfort, ease and convenience to fight the brutal British occupation of India. Jathedar Sahib found it fitting to call this new group Babbar Khalsa whose founders were also from British Columbia, Canada. The modern-day Babbar Khalsa was created in 1978 by Jathedar Talwinder Singh Parmar and Jathedar Sukhdev Singh Babbar as an offshoot of Akhand Kirtani Jatha with the support of Bibi Amarjit Kaur. Talwinder Singh Parmar was the president of Babbar Khalsa International, with Sukhdev Singh Babbar as co-leader. Babbar Khalsa’s goal was to spread the teachings of the Gurus to the people of Punjab and bring to justice people convicted of human rights violation against the Sikhs.
When Jathedar Sahib first arrived in Punjab Baba Nihal Singh of Haria Velaan helped him and his newly formed group Babbar Khalsa by giving them shelter and a base to operate out of. Jathedar Sahib met with other like minded Sikhs to start his mission.
Yatra To Takhat Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib, 1980
L to R - Tarseem Singh, Unknown, Harnek Singh, Unknown, Shaheed Kalwant Singh Nagoke, Unknown, Shaheed Surjeet Singh, Resham Singh Germany, Shaheed Talvinder Singh Parmar, Dara Singh Langary, Fouji Singh , Wadhawa Singh and his son, Unknown, Bookan Singh, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown.
From 1979 - 1981, Jathedar Sahib travelled all over Punjab doing sewa, Amrit sanchar's, teaching people how to live as a good Sikh. During this time, approximately 15,000 people took Amrit from Jathedar Sahib.
After a bloody clash on 13 April 1978 between a group of Amritdhari Sikhs of Akhand Kirtani Jatha and a gathering of the rival Nirankari sect, BKI was created to exact revenge.
On 13 April 1978, the day to celebrate the birth of Khalsa, a peaceful Sant Nirankari convention was organized in Amritsar to start a new religion with the concept of panj pyarre as sath sitare, with permission from the Akali state government. The practices of the "Sant Nirankaris" sect of Nirankaris were considered heresy as the act was intentionally politically motivated to offend Sikh sentiments, but was opposed by Sikh orthodox leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. From Golden Temple premises, Bhindranwale delivered an angry sermon in which he declared that he would not allow this convention and would go there and cut them to pieces. A procession of about two hundred Sikhs led by Bhindranwale and Fauja Singh of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha left the Golden Temple, heading towards the Nirankari Convention. Fauja attempted to behead Nirankari chief Gurbachan Singh with his sword but was shot dead by Gurbachan's bodyguard, while Bhindranwale escaped. In the ensuing violence, several people were killed: two of Bhindranwale's followers, eleven members of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha and three Nirankaris. This event brought Bhindranwale to limelight in the media. A criminal case was filed against sixty-two Nirankaris by the Akali-led government in Punjab. The case was heard in the neighbouring Haryana state, and all the accused were acquitted. The Punjab government Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal decided not to appeal the decision. The case of Nirankaris received widespread support in the media. Bhindranwale increased his rhetoric against the enemies of Sikhs. A letter of authority was issued by Akal Takht to ostracise the Sant Nirankaris.
A sentiment was created to justify extrajudicial killings of the perceived enemies of Sikhism. The chief proponents of this attitude were Babbar Khalsa founded by Talwinder Singh Parmar and followers of the widow, Bibi Amarjit Kaur of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha, whose husband Fauja Singh had been at the head of the march in Amritsar; the Damdami Taksal led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who had also been in Amritsar on the day of the outrage; the Dal Khalsa, formed with the object of demanding a sovereign Sikh state; and the All India Sikh Students Federation, which was banned by the government. Babbar Khalsa started targeting people who sympathised with the Nirankaris. In the subsequent years following this event, several murders took place in Punjab and the surrounding areas allegedly by Bhindranwale's group and the new Babbar Khalsa.
The Babbar Khalsa activists took up residence in the Golden Temple, where they would retreat to, after committing "acts of punishment" on people against the orthodox Sikh tenets. Police did not enter the temple complex to avoid hurting the sentiments of Sikhs. On 24 April 1980, the Nirankari head, Gurbachan was murdered. A member of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha, Ranjit Singh, surrendered and admitted to the assassination three years later, and was sentenced to serve thirteen years at the Tihar Jail in Delhi.
1980, Phagwara
Jathedar Sahib was a very charismatic man, dressing in Nihang Singh Bana, with his colourful chola and dumalla. Looking at Jathedar Sahib, you forgot all your worries; he made you want to be a better person, and the best possible Sikh you could be.
On 19 November 1981, the Punjab Police were looking for Tarsem Singh Kalasinghian and his accomplices, when on the morning of 19 November 1981 an encounter took place at Daheru village in Ludhiana district in which Police Inspector Pritam Singh Bajwa and Constable Surat Singh of Jalandhar were gunned down. All of the militants hiding in a house of Amarjit Singh Nihang managed to escape. Among those named in the First Information Report (FIR) were Wadhawa Singh (present chief of Babbar Khalsa, now based in Pakistan), Talwinder Singh Parmar, Amarjit Singh Nihang, Amarjit Singh (Head Constable), Sewa Singh (Head Constable) and Gurnam Singh (Head Constable). This is believed to be the first act which gained Babbar Khalsa and its chief, Talwinder Singh Parmar, notoriety.
As Jathedar Sahib's popularity in Punjab rose, the Indian government started to notice him and his message to the Sikhs to stand up and fight for their rights. They did not want a strong Sikh people, so the Indian police created fake encounters to arrest him. When Jathedar Sahib escaped from Deheru Khaand mukabala the first ever police encounter between Sikhs and the police, the government put a 50,000 rupee reward for his capture dead or alive.
During this period the Akali Dal recognized Jathedar Sahib for his accomplishments and his un-wavering dedication to Sikhi and the fight for justice against a tyrannical regime in the administration of then Prime Minister Indira Ghandi. The Akali Dal honoured Jathedar Sahib with one of the most prestigious titles of "Jinda Shaheed" (living Martyr). In Sikh history only a handful of Sikhs have ever been honoured with such a title.
In 1982, India issued a warrant for Parmar's arrest for six charges of murder, stemming from the killing of police officers.
As the Indian Military and Punjab Police hunted Jathedar Sahib and his fellow Babbars a group of five Sikhs including Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (Damdami Taksal), Sant Harcharn Singh Longowal (SGPC), Singh Sahib Gurdial Singh Ajnoha (Jathedar, Siri Akal Takhat Sahib) ordered Jathedar Sahib to leave India for he was more valuable to the Sikh nation alive then dead. He did not want to leave, but he accepted the Panj Pyarae's orders. He came back to Canada in May 1982 to a hero's welcome.
After arriving in Canada within a few weeks Jathedar Ji arranged for Bhai Wadhawa Singh, Bhai Tarseem Singh, Bhai Satnam Singh, and Bhai Resham Singh safe passage to then West Germany where the claimed refugee status.
Jathedar Sahib asked the other Babbars that were with him who else wanted to leave India and continue the battle at a later date Bhai Amerjit Singh, Bhai Gurnam Singh, Bhai Surjeet Singh, and Bhai Sewa Singh offered to stay and continue to fight injustices in Punjab.
Of the group of Babbars which remained behind in India Bhai Sewa Singh was captured and served a sentence of 14 years in jail and is now living with his family in Punjab, Bhai Amerjit Singh was arrested, tortured, and killed in a fake police encounter, Bhai Gurnam Singh and Bhai Surjeet Singh were killed in on June 4, 1984 when they defended with their lives the military invasion of the Golden Temple.
In June 1983, he accepted an invitation from the England and European sangats to come for a visit, and share his experiences. Unbeknownst to Jathedar Sahib, the Indian Government had quietly put out an Interpol warrant for his arrest. He was arrested on June 25, 1983 in West Germany. India wanted West Germany to extradite Jathedar Sahib back to India right away. His lawyers in West Germany, England, India, and Canada fought extradition with great valour.
Jathedar Sahib spent over 13 months in solitary confinement in a West German Jail where he spoke no German and the guards and inmates spoke no English. The guards kept him in his cell for 23 hours and 40 minutes. He was only allowed outside his cell for 20 minutes a day.
On July 6, 1984, the judge released Jathedar Sahib. Jathedar Sahib came home to Canada to another hero's welcome on July 7, 1984.
India requested for his extradition from Canada but the request was turned down as Canada didn’t think of Singh’s acts of terror in India as a Canadian problem.
Jathedar Sahib was very hurt by Operation Bluestar. The destruction of Harmandir Sahib and the Akal Takht Sahib was like the destruction of himself.
On July 15, 1984, Parmar strongly urged Sikhs to "unite, fight and kill" in order to punish the Indian government for Operation Blue Star. Operation Blue Star was government response to the militarization and occupation of the Golden Temple, (HarMandir Sahib), in the Indian State Punjab by Sikh terrorists led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
To protest against the invasion of the Indian army on the Darbar Sahib, Bhai Manjeet Singh Babbar and 8 other Sikhs hijacked an Indian Airliner from Jammu to Lahore. The other hijackers were:
Parminder Singh "Harfam Maula" (Leader)
Dalip Singh
Gurdip Singh Pardesi
Malaghar Singh Babbar
Harbhajan Singh
Harminder Singh
Gurvinder Singh
Ravinder Singh
Upon landing in Pakistan, they surrendered to the Pakistani Police, and ended their peaceful protest.
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| Manjit Singh Babbar in Pakistan Jail |
In the words of bhai sahib in a letter from prison:
"Our bodies are imprisoned behind high walls but our minds are free. According to the will of the Lord, there is an abundance of Bani being recited here, which would have been difficult if not impossible on the outside. I'm so happy that Satguru ji has given this blessed time to me. I try to take advantage of it as much as possible. But everything is in the hands of the beloved Lord. I have no other desire but that my head should be sacrificed for the Satguru. Don't pray for our long lives, instead, pray that this filth filled body may be fulfilled by being martyred for Sikhi."
On January 20, 1986, three of them were sentenced to death, two were sentenced to life-imprisonment and four were acquited (Manjeet Singh Babbar, Malagaar Singh Babbar and 2 others).
Later in 1989 the death sentence was commuted to life-imprisonment under the orders of a general amnesty.
In 1990, Jathedar Talvinder Singh Babbar, Chief of Babbar Khalsa, made Malaghar Singh Babbar and Manjeet Singh Babbar "Generals",
Babbar Khalsa General Bhai Manjeet Singh Babbar was born as Manjeet Singh Doad in Sikh Rajput family to Sardar Karnail Singh Doad and Mata Ratan Kaur in the village Jalwehra, Hoshiarpur on Oct 30, 1955. He studied at the local village school in Panshta/Panchhat. Bhai Manjeet Singh was also Jathedar Sahib's brother in law. They both planned to return to India for rejoining the Khalistani movement.
In Pakistan, at Bhog of the 5th continuous Akhand Paat before Bhai Manjit Singh (on the left), went across the border into Punjab, Jathedar Sahib is seated on the right.On 25 October 1990, four of them attempted to cross the border together to rejoin the Sikh Movement in Punjab (two succeeded). While they were crossing border, the Indian Army was passing and Bhai Malaghar Singh opened fire, and Bhai Manjeet Singh followed.
Few soldiers were Injured in this encounter, and these two Singh's were also martyred as their ammunition finished.
On the otherside Enjoying the immunity provided by the Canadian state, Talwinder Singh conspired the Air India flight bombing in June 1985, killing 329 innocent people.
On June 23, 1985: BKI militants bombed Air India Flight 182 going from Montreal, Canada to New Delhi, India. An improvised explosive device placed inside the cargo hold of the Boeing 747 destroyed the plane with an explosion at an altitude of 31,000 feet in Irish airspace and it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. All 329 passengers were killed, including 268 Canadian, 27 British and 24 Indian citizens. It was a part of an attempted double-bombing which included Air India Flight 301.
Inderjit Singh Reyat(left) was the bomb-maker who was convicted by Canadian court,can be seen with Talwinder Singh Parmar(R)(chief of Babbar Khalsa, found to be the mastermind as per Justice B.N Kirpal Commission & CBI)at the courthouse in Duncan, B.C., on Nov. 8, 1985.
In Nov 1985, Jathedar Sahib was arrested in Canada for being behind the Air India crash. Parmar and Inderjit Singh Reyat were arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on explosive charges, linking the two to the Air India Flight 182 bombing and 1985 Narita International Airport bombing. Parmar was acquitted of all charges. Inderjit Singh Reyat admitted to building the bomb, was convicted in the Air India bombing. Reyat a member of the ISYF, was found guilty of manslaughter for making the bombs and had to spend more than 20 years in prison at Canada, and is the only individual convicted in these attacks,
When crown provided no evidence the charges were stayed and he was released in January 1986.
Five Babbar Khalsa members from Montreal were arrested May 30, 1986, for another plot to bomb Air India flights out of New York City. Newspaper editor Tara Singh Hayer was targeted with a bomb at his office in January 1986. Just weeks later, Sikhs from the Hamilton temple along with Air India bombing suspects Talwinder Singh Parmar and Ajaib Singh Bagri were arrested after being wiretapped discussing blowing up the Parliament and kidnapping children of MPs in India. Visiting Punjabi Cabinet Minister Malkiat Singh Sidhu was ambushed in Canada, surviving being shot in March 1986 by four gunmen.
Jathedar Sahib was again arrested in Jun 1986 for conspiracy to bomb the parliament buildings in India, he was charged along with eight other Babbars. Of these nine men, six were released immediately. The other three men, including Jathedar Sahib, went through a trial, and were found not guilty in May 1987.
Canada, 1987, After Jathedar Sahib were released from jail
Jathedar Sahib again spent over 10 months in solitary confinement in a Hamilton jail, during that time Jathedar Sahib day consisted of been locked up for 23 hours and 40 minutes everyday.
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In June 1988 Jathedar Sahib saw no other choice but to leave Canada to Dara region, near Peshawar, Pakistan, close to border with Afghanistan, once again fight human rights violation of his fellow Sikhs in India. He could stand by no longer and let a tyrant government take advantage of his people.
1990s
On 8 January 1990, Khalistan Liberation Force in co-operation with Babbar Khalsa, killed DSP Gobind Ram in a bomb blast.
On 7 September 1991, eight Babbar Khalsa militants had an encounter with CRPF personnel near the village of Maujiya. On the militants' side, three were killed: Khem Singh Babbar, Paramjeet Singh Babbar and Gurmail Singh Babbar. The encounter lasted for 24 hours.
Parmar moved to India after the attack but was later killed in an encounter with Indian police before the conclusion of the subsequent inquires and criminal investigations. The report also provided scathing criticism of the CSIS for erasing many of the Parmar's recordings
In 1992, Talwinder Singh Parmar split from the BKI and formed the Babbar Khalsa (Parmar) faction. This happened after serious differences erupted between Parmar and BKI's leadership. The Parmar faction has a presence in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.
The crackdown on Sikh militant organisations by the Indian Government in the early 1990s, followed by government infiltration of the Khalistan movement and the various militant organisations respectively, greatly weakened the Babbar Khalsa, ultimately leading to the death of Talwinder Singh Parmar (15 October 1992). Parmar had been killed by Indian police in a gunfight per the official sources.
In April 2003, three members of the Vancouver Sikh community – Ajaib Singh Bagri, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Inderjit Singh Reyat were charged. Reyat pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but Bagri and Malik were acquitted.
In March 2005 judgment of The Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 by Justice Josephson of the British Columbia Supreme Court concluded that, regarding Talwinder Singh Parmar, "[it] is now believed that he was the leader of the conspiracy to bomb Air India flights"
A subsequent commission of inquiry appointed by Canadian Govt and Led by Supreme Court Justice John C. Major submitted its report in 2010. The final report revealed that the Canadian Intelligence Service had Parmar under surveillance prior to the bombing and had also wiretapped him post bombing. From the time of Parmar's return to Canada following his incarceration in West Germany, he was considered a person of interest to the Canadian authorities. Surveillance on Parmar began as early as 1982, with agents being sent to follow his movements. A warrant under the CSIS Act to intercept communications on Mr. Parmar was sought in the Federal Court and granted commencing March 14, 1985.
Alleged confession to Punjab Police in 1992
In July 2007, the investigative magazine Tehelka reported that Parmar may have confessed to the Punjab police during interrogations preceding his death. He was accused of supplying the dynamite to Lakhbir Singh Rode, a nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who he claimed was the mastermind behind the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Tehelka reported that Singh had been interrogated in India between 9 and 14 October 1992, by senior police officers, where he claimed that the Air India 182 blasts were instigated by Lakhbir Singh Rode.
Retired Punjab Police DSP Harmail Singh Chandi, the key official behind Parmar's arrest at Jammu in September 1992 and his subsequent interrogation before he was killed, eventually came forward with statements from Parmar's confessions. Despite being ordered to destroy these records, he had apparently preserved them in secret. The confession involved Singh's version of the plot:
"Around May 1985, a functionary of the International Sikh Youth Federation came to me and introduced himself as Lakhbir Singh and asked me for help in conducting some violent activities to express the resentment of the Sikhs. I told him to come after a few days so that I could arrange for dynamite and battery etc. He told me that he would first like to see a trial of the blast...After about four days, Lakhbir Singh and another youth, Inderjit Singh Reyat, both came to me. We went into the jungle (of British Columbia). There we joined a dynamite stick with a battery and triggered off a blast. Lakhbir and Inderjit, even at that time, had in their minds a plan to blast an aeroplane. I was not too keen on this plan but agreed to arrange for the dynamite sticks. Inderjit wanted to use for this purpose a transistor fitted with a battery.... That very day, they took dynamite sticks from me and left.
Then Lakhbir Singh, Inderjit Singh and their accomplice, Manjit Singh, made a plan to plant bombs in an Air India (AI) plane leaving from Toronto via London for Delhi and another flight that was to leave Tokyo for Bangkok. Lakhbir Singh got the seat booking done from Vancouver to Tokyo and then onwards to Bangkok, while Manjit Singh got it done from Vancouver to Toronto and then from Toronto to Delhi. Inderjit prepared the bags bags for the flights, which were loaded with dynamite bombs fitted with a battery and transistor. They decided that the suitcases will be booked but they themselves will not travel by the same flights although they will take the boarding passes. After preparing these bombs, the plan was ready for execution by June 21 or 22, 1985. However, the bomb to be kept in the flight from Tokyo to Delhi via Bangkok exploded at the Narita airport on the conveyor belt. The second suitcase that was loaded on the Toronto-Delhi ai flight exploded in the air." - from alleged confession by Talwinder Singh.
After this interrogation, Parmar was killed in an exchange of fire between police and six militants in the early morning of October 15, 1992, near village Kang Arian in Phillaur sub-division. However, Tehelka claimed that Parmar had been killed while in custody. Tehelka claimed there were discrepancies between the First Information Report (FIR) regarding the incident, and the post-mortem report. According to the FIR, Parmar was killed by AK-47 fire by SSP Satish K Sharma, firing from a rooftop, at 5:30 AM. The PMR shows that the line of fire of the three bullets are different, which is not possible if one person is firing from a fixed position. Also, the PMR says that the time of death was between 12am and 2am.
The tapes and statements were claimed to have been handed over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the John Major Commission of Inquiry when reinvestigating the Kanishka blast, otherwise known as the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Canadian authorities eventually concluded Parmar was officially responsible for the attacks.
Meanwhile, Lakhbir Singh Rode who currently heads the banned International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) is suspected to be living in Lahore, Pakistan. ISYF has presence in over a dozen countries worldwide. Lakhbir is also affiliated with the terror org, Khalistan Zindabad Force.
The subsequent investigations into the Air India bombing exposed many links. The bombing was soon linked to the earlier flight bombing in Japan which had also originated from Canada; the tickets of both the flights were booked by one man & carried bags belonging to no passenger. All those arrested were found to be the ardent supporters of Khalistan movement and had a history of publicly agitating against India and glorifying armed violence.
One of them, Ajaib Singh Bagri had publicly stated that, “ We will not rest until we take 50,000 Hindu lives.”
The investigations took 25 years to conclude and Air India flight bombing trial proved to be one of the most expensive trials for Canada. The major conclusion was “a cascading series of errors" by Canadian govt, police and intelligence allowed the terrorist attack to take place.
The bigger question is, “Has Canada changed its soft-Khalistan policy even today?” The answer is a big NO. The Canadian territory is still being used with impunity to fan & fund Khalistani terror attacks in India, kudos to the heroes of Punjab Police that they’re averted in time.
A few important add-ons:
1. Terrorist, Talwinder Singh Parmar died in a gun fight with the Punjab police in 1992.
2. Sikh extremists across the world criticise Talwinder’s death in a gun-battle with the police as an extra-judicial killing and as an assault on their faith.
3. The usual Khalistani propaganda is that Talwinder Singh was an Indian agent sent to bomb India’s own plane and people. *Just like Khalistani terror and Blue Star Operation are completely blamed on the Indian state instead of extremist religious views within the Sikh community.
4. The same Khalistani apologists who call Talwinder Singh Parmar, an Indian agent, celebrate him as a martyr of the Sikh nation in Gurudwaras and political events in the west.
Now, it is up to us, Indians, to question this visible deceitfulness and acknowledge the victims of such mindless, religious extremism or fall into the guilt trap created by the apologists of these religious extremists being revered as some sort of warriors.
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