TALWINDER SINGH PARMAR

'Talwinder Singh Parmar' {February 26, 1944-1992-10-15), born in Hoshiarpur area of the Punjab, India, was a highranking member of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa.
Parmar carried out militancy [1] from outside India co-founding the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) in Canada (Vancouver) in 1979 with Sukhdev Singh Babbar. 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 1992-10-15, but details of this incident are disputed.
In July 2007, it was alleged by [Tehelka]] 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 the mastermind behind the bombing of Air India Flight 182.

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Air India Flight 182

Parmar preached at many Sikh temples in Canada and abroad. Although never formally charged, he was suspected of being the mastermind of the bombing of Air India Flight 182, on which 329 people including 82 children were killed. He is also allegedly said to have planned the Narita Airport Bombing.
On November 8, 1985, five months after the bombings of Flight 182 and the Narita Airport, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged Talwinder Singh Parmar and Inderjit Singh Reyat with weapons, explosives and conspiracy offences after a raid on their homes. Reyat, a fellow member of the BKI, is convicted of the weapons offence and received a fine of $2,000. Due to lack of evidence, the charges against Parmar are dropped and no link to the Air India bombing has ever been established.
Parmar returned to India and developed differences with the chief of the Babbar Khalsa Sukhdev Singh Babbar. In 1991 he broke from the Babbar Khalsa and formed the Azad Babbar Khalsa (Independent Babbar Khalsa). The circumstances of Parmar's death are unconfirmed. He was reportedly killed in a gunfight with the Indian police in Bombay on October 15, 1992. However, Canada's CBC network reported that Parmar had been in police custody for some time prior to his death, lending credence to those who claim Parmar was tortured before his execution at the hands of Indian police in what is known as a police encounter.

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