Talk:Talwinder Singh Parmar

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Talwinder Singh was a self sttled chief of babbar khalsa, and was suspected in the air india bombings. The claim that Talwinder Singh Parmar was killed in Bombay is wrong. Actually he was encountered at Phillor (Punjab)

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I have concerns that this section cites a questionable source for contentious claims. So I moved the content here for discussion and better sourcing: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Canuckle (talk • contribs) 11:43, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Alleged confession to Punjab Police in 1992

An investigative report by Tehelka released in late July 2007, claims that Parmar was interrogated between October 9 and 14, 1992, by senior police officers, where he revealed that the blasts were instigated by Lakhbir Singh Brar Rode, a nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. The article also claims that Lakhbir may have been an Indian agent, which is why the confession was officially destroyed.

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 the details behind 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 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 the confession by Talwinder Singh Parmar

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 Phillar sub-division. However, the report says that actually, Parmar had been killed while in custody. It cites discrepancies between the First Information Report 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 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. 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". The PHRO suggests that the "On October 14, 1992, a high-level decision was conveyed to the police that Parmar had to be killed...".

Lakhbir Singh Rode, who was the head of the banned International Sikh Youth Federation, is now alleged to be living in Lahore.

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in the armed struggle against the Indian government

"in the armed struggle against the Indian government"

Is that neutral, factual language??

What pamphlets use that jargon when not propaganda? Post-independence ??? From India ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.55.81.144 (talk) 23:28, 15 March 2018 (UTC)