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  Talwinder Singh Parmar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Talwinder Singh Parmar was born in the Punjab, India on February 26, 1944.
Parmar was a highranking member of a Sikh militant organisation group known as the Babbar Khalsa.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talwinder_Singh_Parmar   (362 words)

  
 Babbar Khalsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sukhdev Singh Babbar and Talwinder Singh Parmar were the most prominent founding members of this organisation, with Talwinder Singh Parmar founding the Babbar Khalsa International in 1981 and Sukhdev Singh Babbar handling matters within India.
Parmar's death remains controversial, and today he is accepted to have been shot in a gun battle with Indian police, with Canada's CBC network reporting that Parmar had been in police custody for some time prior to his death.
Bheora was involved with Jagtar Singh Hawara and Jagtar Singh Tara in digging a 100 foot tunnel to escape from the Burail jail.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babbar_Khalsa   (1255 words)

  
 Babbar Khalsa International - Punjab Terrorist Outfit Profile
Talwinder Singh Parmar, a co-founder of the BKI, formed the Babbar Khalsa (Parmar) faction in 1992, when he split from the BKI after serious differences erupted between him and its leadership of.
Mehal Singh is the deputy chief of BKI.
The DP conducted a raid at the hideout of Jaspal Singh at Inderpuri and recovered 1 kg of RDX, a timer, detonator, a.303 rifle, 20 rounds of ammunitions, a uniform of a Punjab Police head constable and several fake driving licenses.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/terrorist_outfits/BKI.htm   (2590 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Talwinder Parmar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Parmar, 42, of Burnaby, B.C., a father of three, is the head priest of the Babbar Khalsa (Lions of the True Faith), a fundamentalist Sikh group.
Parmar, who arrived in Canada in 1970 and is a Canadian citizen, was in his usual high spirits during the 30-minute interview at the modern jail in Hamilton's north end.
Talwinder Singh Parmar, a founder of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa who was killed by Indian police in October 1992, is named as an unindicted conspirator for the bombings.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Parmar_Talwinder_53712932.htm   (1352 words)

  
 Canadian Police Charge Suspects in Air India Bombing
The leader of the Babbar Khalsa group was Talwinder Singh Parmar, a resident of British Columbia.
Parmar was wanted in India on murder and conspiracy charges and was already under surveillance before the bombing of Flight 182.
Talwinder Singh Parmar and Inderjet Singh Reyat were charged with minor weapons offenses, although, at a press conference following the arrests, investigators let it be known that the two were believed to have links to the Air India bombing.
www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=511   (1355 words)

  
 CBC News In Depth: Air India - Bombing of Air India Flight 182
Talwinder Singh Parmar was the alleged mastermind behind the bombing of Air India Flight 182.
Parmar was a devout Sikh and became involved with the Babbar Khalsa sect, which the Indian government considered a terrorist organization.
Parmar became the Canadian leader of the sect, a group committed to the violent establishment of Khalistan, an independent Sikh homeland, in Punjab.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/airindia/key_characters.html   (1733 words)

  
 Babbar Khalsa
Shaheedi Bhai Sukhdev Singh Babbar and Shaheedi Bhal Talwinder Singh Parmar were the most prominent founding members of this organisation, with Shaheedi Talwinder Singh Parmar taking over foreign duties in the guise of Babbar Khalsa International and Shaheedi Sukhdev Singh Babbar handling matters within India.
Shaheedi Talwinder Singh Parmar later left, forming his own faction (Babbar Khalsa Parmar) when he fell out with the BKI leadership.
Parmar's death remains controversial, with Canada's CBC network reporting that Parmar had been in police custody for some time prior to his death, lending credence to those who claim Parmar was tortured and murdered before his execution at the hands of Punjab police in a "fake encounter".
www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Babbar_Khalsa   (808 words)

  
 Profile of the accused - Talwinder Singh
Talwinder Singh Parmar is alleged to have been the mastermind behind the bombing of the Kanishka.
Parmar during the course of his stay outside India, built extensive links with terrorists and other disgruntled elements in Nepal and the eastern corridor of India.
Talwinder Singh Parmar was killed by the Punjab Police in 1992.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/backgrounder/talwinder_singh.htm   (131 words)

  
 Air-India Backgrounder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
At the request of U.S. authorities, CSIS begins a wiretap on Sikh militant Talwinder Singh Parmar, identified as a possible threat to India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during a visit to the United Nations in June, 1985.
Parmar and an unidentified person into the woods outside Duncan, B.C., where they hear a loud explosion they believe to be a high-calibre handgun.
Parmar; the official says the RCMP had the same option to deter bombing and they chose not to pursue it.
www.theglobeandmail.com /backgrounder/airindia/pages/s_ignored.html   (683 words)

  
 Talwinder Singh Parmar: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Talwinder Singh Parmar was born in the Punjab A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan
Parmar carried out terrorist activities from outside India founding a chapter of the Babbar Khalsa Babbar khalsa was one of many sikh groups operating during the 1970s and 80s....
Parmar returned to India and developed differences with the chief of the Babbar Khalsa Babbar khalsa was one of many sikh groups operating during the 1970s and 80s....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /t/talwinder_singh_parmar   (608 words)

  
 A conviction at last
Parmar had just returned to Canada after spending a year in a German jail while Indian authorities fought, unsuccessfully, to extradite him for 30 terrorist murders he had allegedly committed in Punjab.
Parmar left for Pakistan in 1988 and, by the next year, was in India with Bagri, ferrying in the first in a long series of weapons consignments.
Parmar is known to have made contact with Manjit Singh, a top Inter-Services Intelligence operative tasked with running Operation K2M, an ambitious effort to set up a coalition of terrorists affiliated to the Khalistan movement, Jammu and Kashmir, and Muslims affected by communal riots.
www.flonnet.com /fl2005/stories/20030314003510000.htm   (2339 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Deadly puzzle remains a mystery
The pilot, Captain Hanse Singh Narenda, had not reported any problem with the Boeing 747, which was en route to London's Heathrow airport from Montreal, having picked up a number of passengers and baggage from Toronto and Vancouver.
Vancouver-based Talwinder Singh Parmar, who led an extremist Sikh group called Babbar Khalsa, was arrested in November 1985, along with Inderjit Singh Reyat, a British citizen who once worked at the Jaguar car factory in Coventry.
Parmar was later killed by Indian police while Reyat, an electrician, was convicted in 1991 of building a bomb which was planted on another Air India plane, which exploded at Tokyo's Narita airport on the same day as Flight 182 killing two baggage handlers.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4344051.stm   (1065 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Sikh priest testifies at Air India trial- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Bagri always arrived at the temple with Talwinder Singh Parmar, the revered leader of the Babbar Khalsa who is considered the mastermind behind the Air India bombings.
Singh said Bagri told people at the private meetings that Sikhs should rise up against the Indian government after it had ordered the Indian military to flush out Sikh militants who had occupied the Golden Temple.
Parmar, who was shot dead by Indian police in 1992, is believed to be the alleged mastermind of the bombing plot.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20031206/air_india031206/20031206?hub=Canada&subhub=PrintStory   (772 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
Parmar was the founder and leader of the Babbar Khalsa.
Ripudaman Singh Malik, 53, and Ajaib Singh Bagri, 51, have been charged with eight counts — two counts of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, conspiring to cause bombs to be put on aircraft and three counts of causing a bomb to be placed on an aircraft.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, an electrician from the Vancouver Island community of Duncan, is sentenced to 10 years in jail on manslaughter and explosives charges related to the Narita bombing.
www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20001029/main2.htm   (2119 words)

  
 Air India Trial-Consider CSIS tape, Air-India defendant asks court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In an unusual twist in the Air-India trial, defendant Ajaib Singh Bagri has asked the court to consider CSIS tape recordings of intercepted telephone conversations to prove that he was not a member of the alleged conspiracy to blow up airplanes.
Parmar and was part of the conspiracy responsible for the bombings, Mr.
Parmar had phone conversations on dates and times indicated by the tapes and that he spoke to those identified during the conversations.
www.nriinternet.com /AirIndia/07012004/072204.htm   (500 words)

  
 [FS_ANNOUNCE] Another Botch: Air India Suspects Acquitted
Parmar, the plot's alleged mastermind, was killed in India in 1992.
The suspected mastermind of the plot was Talwinder Singh Parmar, prosecutors told the trial, which was held in a specially built multimillion-dollar courtroom with protective glass separating the accused and lawyers from the public gallery.
Talwinder Singh Parmar: Sikh separatist militant believed to have masterminded the bombings; killed in a shootout with Indian police in the early 1990s.
mailman.freedomsite.org /pipermail/fs_announce/2005/001571.html   (4272 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: Slain Sikh publisher's family in Canada blasts police
Even though the police and Crown counsel believed Harkirat Singh Bagga was just the triggerman in the 1988 attack, the RCMP admitted this week that the file was closed as soon as Bagga went to jail for the crime, the newspaper revealed.
Parmar, a key suspect in the 1985 bombing of Air-India flight 182, which left 329 dead, was killed by the Indian police while in custody in 1992.
Jagtar Singh Sandhu, the former Canadian president of the ISYF, is president of the Dasmesh temple and actively campaigning for his fundamentalist friends.
www.rediff.com /news/1998/dec/12us.htm   (1597 words)

  
 Kanishka bombing: The investigation - Sify.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Talwinder Singh Parmar, a Babbar Khalsa terrorist was killed by the Punjab Police in 1992.
Inderjit Singh Reyat was sentenced in 1991 to serve a 10-year imprisonment for manufacturing the bomb intended to blow-up the AI flight.
Inderjit Singh Reyat was found guilty of manslaughter and making explosive substances among other charges and received a 10-years sentence and a firearm prohibition of 5 years for his role in the Narita airport incident.
sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13287626   (992 words)

  
 Welcome to the Now
Parmar is the brother of unindicted co-conspirator Talwinder Singh Parmar, believed to be the mastermind behind the 1985 bombing.
The latter Parmar was killed by Indian police in 1992 in Bombay.
Parmar made headlines last September when he accused RCMP of hassling him at his workplace by posing as customers, then offering him $1 million and a new identity if he agreed to testify at the Air India trial.
www.thenownewspaper.com /issues03/045103/news/045103nn1.html   (650 words)

  
 Navy SEALs.com - Articles: Viewing Article
The two men were associates of Talwinder Singh Parmar, a Sikh who authorities said led a militant group from his home in Burnaby, B.C. After India's raid on the Sikhs' holy Golden Temple, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service suspected that Parmar had been involved in a plot to kill Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Parmar, who Josephson said probably organized the plot, returned to India and was killed in 1992 in what police there said was a confrontation with authorities.
A third man, Inderjit Singh Reyat, was sentenced to 10 years in 1991 for buying materials for the Tokyo bomb and five years in 2003 for his role in the bombmaking that brought down Air India Flight 182.
www.navyseals.com /community/articles/article.cfm?id=6160   (1070 words)

  
 Journeys into terrorism
PRADEEP SINGH SAINI, who reached London as a stowaway in the wheelbay of a British Airways Boeing 747 from New Delhi in October 1996, surviving for 10 hours temperatures of -60°C, may just be an emblem of the troubled present of the Doaba region of Punjab.
Sukhwinder Singh from Phagwara and Surjeet Singh Behlaa, also from a village in Hoshiarpur district, flew with him to Pakistan, and all three were received at the airport by KCF operative Nishan Singh.
The arrest of British citizen Gurnam Singh early in August 1997 in Ludhiana, and the recovery of 15 kg of RDX and high-technology 'A,B,C,D' electronic detonators from the car he was travelling in, illustrates the influence of revanchist groups abroad.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1418/14180250.htm   (2134 words)

  
 Events: Kanishka Case; Trial twist; Dec 7, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The main accused in the case, Vancouver-based businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik and a sawmill worker Ajay Singh Bagri, were charged on eight counts-including first-degree murder and criminal conspiracy.
Parmar, who was suspected of plotting attacks against Indian targets, was under surveillance by the CSIS much before the explosion and his phone was being tapped three months before it.
On June 4, 1985, CSIS agents followed Parmar, Reyat and an unidentified person into the woods outside Duncan, where they heard a loud explosion believed to be of a high-calibre handgun.
www.the-week.com /23dec07/events5.htm   (1077 words)

  
 Kanishka case: Wedding casts doubts about testimony
Vancouver: Key witness in the Air India trial Inderjit Singh Reyat's daughter was married to former leader of Babbar Khalsa who faced terrorism charges with two of the other suspects in the Kanishka case raising questions about the testimony given by the accused this week.
Tejpal is the son of Tejinder Singh Kaloe, the long-time head of the Ontario Babbar Khalsa who was arrested in 1986 along with accused Air India bomber Ajaib Singh Bagri and suspected Air India mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar.
Jaswinder Singh Parmar, who is married to one of Bagri's daughters, was in Ontario on business and went to the wedding, Kaloe said.
news.indiainfo.com /2003/09/14/14kanishka.html   (619 words)

  
 Air India chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
They are led in England by Dr. Jagjit Singh Chouhan and in Punjab by the charismatic Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who begins to amass arms and supporters in the Golden Temple complex, Sikhism's holiest shrine, in Amritsar.
The tickets are booked in the names of M. Singh, who had a seat on a flight to Toronto that connected with Air India Flight 182, and L. Singh, who was booked on a CP Air flight to Tokyo, then on an Air India flight.
June 1986 - Parmar, Ajaib Singh Bagri and several Ontario members of their Babbar Khalsa group are arrested and charged with conspiring to kidnap the children of an Indian MP and bomb the Indian parliament.
www.canada.com /vancouversun/features/airindia/story.html?id=2abe7311-8a9f-499a-b01c-a0161fa04865   (1175 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Unravelling the Air India investigation
Parmar, regarded by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as the mastermind of the Air India bombing, was killed by police in India in 1992.
After charges against Parmar were dropped in 1985, the next embarrassment for the investigation came with the news that the Canadian secret services (CSIS) had destroyed tapes of telephone calls made by Sikhs suspected of involvement in the Air India case.
The case presented against Mr Malik and Mr Singh in court, after an investigation costing $45m, turned on the reliability of key prosecution witnesses, who claimed the accused had privately confessed to involvement in the bombing.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4357235.stm   (727 words)

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