Talwinder Singh Parmar
February 26, 1944 - October 15, 1992
Talwinder Singh Parmar
Nickname	Talwinder Singh Babbar
Place of birth	Village Panshtah, Kapurthala, Punjab, India
Place of death	Village Kang Arian PhillaurPunjab, India
Allegiance	Babbar Khalsa International
Years of service	1979 - 1992
Rank	Chief Leader
Battles/wars	Khalistan movement (East Punjabi: ਖਾਲਿਸਤਾਨ, West Punjabi: تحریک خالستان)

Talwinder Singh Parmar (February 26, 1944-October 15, 1992), born in village Panshtah, district Kapurthala, Punjab, India, was a highranking member of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa. is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Talwinder Singh Parmar This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... Kapurthala (Punjabi: ) is a city in Punjab state of India. ... , This article is about the Indian state of Punjab. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... Phillaur is a town in the Indian state of Punjab. ... , This article is about the Indian state of Punjab. ... Babbar Khalsa International logo Babbar Khalsa International logo variation Babbar Khalsa is the oldest and most prominent Sikh freedom fighting organisation and is one of many Sikh groups operating for the formation of an independent Sikh state called Khalistan (meaning Land of the Pure) from Indian territory in the Punjab... Punjab State A proposed flag for Khalistan Proposed Khalistani Currency The Khālistān movement (Punjabi: ) is a movement in Indian Punjab in the 1970s and 80s to create The Land of the Pure as an independent state in all Punjabi-speaking areas contiguous to the borders of Indian Punjab... Punjabi redirects here. ... Punjabi redirects here. ... is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Kapurthala (Punjabi: ) is a city in Punjab state of India. ... This article details the Indian state of Punjab. ... Religions Sikhism Scriptures Guru Granth Sahib Languages English, Punjabi] A Sikh (English: or ; Punjabi: , , IPA: ) is an adherent to Sikhism. ... Babbar Khalsa International logo Babbar Khalsa International logo variation The Babbar Khalsa (Punjabi: , ) is a group considered to be among the oldest and most prominent of Sikh organisations calling for the formation of an independent Sikh state. ...

Parmar carried out militancy [1] from outside India founding the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) in Canada (Vancouver) in 1979. Parmar was the overall chief of Babbar Khalsa whereas Sukhdev Singh Babbar was only the Chief of India. Parmar later became a naturalized Canadian citizen and was extradited to India to face charges of murder and conspiracy. He was killed in a police encounter with Punjab Police on October 15, 1992; details of this incident are disputed. Babbar Khalsa International logo Babbar Khalsa International logo variation Babbar Khalsa is the oldest and most prominent Sikh freedom fighting organisation and is one of many Sikh groups operating for the formation of an independent Sikh state called Khalistan (meaning Land of the Pure) from Indian territory in the Punjab... For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... The Punjab police is responsible for policing in Punjab. ... is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

In July 2007, the investigative magazine Tehelka reported that Parmar may have confessed to the Punjab police during interrogations preceding his death. He is said to have supplied the dynamite to Lakbir Singh Rode, who was claimed to have been the mastermind behind the bombing of Air India Flight 182^[1]. Tehelka is an Indian weekly newspaper under the editorship of Tarun Tejpal. ... Air-India Flight 182 was en-route to Sahar, India via London Heathrow, as it entered airspace over the Atlantic Ocean on the South coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985, the Boeing 747 was destroyed while at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9500 m). ...

Alleged Confession to Punjab Police in 1992

In July 2007 the investigative newsmagazine Tehelka reported that Parmar had been interrogated in India between October 9 and 14, 1992, by senior police officers, where he revealed that the Air India 182 blasts were instigated by Lakhbir Singh Brar Rode, a nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. The article also states that Lakhbir may have been an Indian agent, which is why the confession was officially destroyed^[1]. Tehelka is an Indian weekly newspaper under the editorship of Tarun Tejpal. ... Air-India Flight 182 was a Boeing 747 that exploded on June 23, 1985 while at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland; all 329 on board were killed, of whom 136 were children and 280 were Canadian citizens. ... Lakhbir Singh Brar Rode is the head of the banned terrorist organization International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), with branches in a dozen countries in western Europe and Canada[1]. He is the nephew of radical Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was killed by the Indian Army in Operation Blue... Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale or Jarnail Singh (Punjabi: ; February 12, 1947–June 6, 1984) was the leader of the Damdami Taksal, a Sikh religious group based in India. ...

Recently, 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, has come forward with audiotapes and statements from Parmar's confessions. Despite being ordered to destroy these records, he had apparently preserved them in secret. The confession apparently outlines many details of the plot: Jammu   (Hindi: जम्मू, Urdu: جموں) is one of the three regions comprising the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir. ... For other uses, see September (disambiguation). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

"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 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 Parmar^[1]

After this interrogation, Parmar was shown as having been killed in an exchange of fire between police and six militants in the wee hours of 1992-10-15, near village Kang Arian in Phillaur sub-division. However, Tehelka claims that actually, Parmar had been killed while in custody. It cites 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. Air India Flight 182 was a Boeing 747 that exploded on June 23, 1985 while at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland; all 329 on board were killed, of whom eighty two were children and 280 were Canadian citizens. ... At 07:13 on Sunday June 23, 1985 an explosion in the New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport) baggage terminal killed two baggage handlers, and injured four. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Phillaur is a town in the Indian state of Punjab. ... A First Information Report or FIR is a written document prepared by the police in India when they receive information about the commission of a cognizable offence. ...

The tapes and statements are claimed to have been handed over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the John Major Commission of Inquiry that is reinvestigating the Kanishka blast. This was made possible through the efforts of the Punjab Human Rights Organisation (PHRO), a Chandigarh-based NGO that conducted interviews of Parmar's associates and prepared a comprehensive report over seven years. RCMP redirects here. ... The Honourable John C. Major, B. Comm , LL.B , LL.D , QC (Born in Mattawa, Ontario, 1931) is a Canadian jurist and pusine justice on the Supreme Court of Canada. ... , Chandigarh   (Punjabi: , Hindi: , pronunciation: ) also called The City Beautiful , is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. ... NGO is an abbreviation or code for: Non-governmental organization Nagoya Airport (IATA code) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Tehelka reports that "the PHRO's Principal Investigator Sarbjit Singh and lawyer Rajvinder Singh Bains flew to Canada along with Harmail in June and produced their findings before the Commission's counsels"^[1]. Official inquiry spokesman Michael Tansey told the The Globe and Mail: "We're aware of this article in Tehelka, and we will explore this and any other allegations when the hearings resume in the fall."^[2] The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English-language nationally distributed newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. ...

Meanwhile, Lakhbir Singh Rode, who is the head of the banned International Sikh Youth Federation, is now alleged to be living in Lahore.^[1] This is a page that depicts Khalistani Millitant Organisations. ...   (Urdu: لاہور, Punjabi: لہور, pronounced ) is the capital of the Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Vikram Jit Singh. "Operation Silence", Tehelka, issue dated 2007-08-04. Retrieved on 2007-07-27. 
2. ^ Robert Matas. "Recording of Air India bombing confession allegedly surfaces 22 years later", Globe and Mail, July 30, 2007 at 12:59 AM EDT. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.