Recording of Air India bombing confession allegedly surfaces 22 years late

Vancouver: A recording of the alleged confession of the mastermind behind the bombing of Air India Flight 182 has surfaced 22 years after the tragedy, an investigative magazine in India says.
Vancouver Sikh militant Talwinder Singh Parmar confessed to Punjab police during five days of interrogation in October, 1992, before being killed by police, the article says. The officer who arrested Mr. Parmar, Harmail Singh Chandi, was directed to destroy the tape-recorded confession but he kept them secretly, it says.
Under the headline “Operation Silence,” the article in the magazine Tehelka also says the police officer who arrested Mr. Parmar flew to Canada in June to provide evidence to the Air India inquiry headed by retired judge John Major.
However a spokesman for families of the victims of the attack said last night that he knew nothing about a statement by Mr. Parmar.
In the alleged confession, Mr. Parmar shifted the blame from himself, telling police he was acting on behalf of Lakhbir Singh Brar, a member of a prominent family in the fight in the 1980s for a Sikh separate country called Khalistan.
Mr. Parmar is said to have told police that Vancouver Island resident Inderjit Singh Reyat prepared the suitcases with bombs for two flights while Mr. Brar arranged for the booking of the tickets.
30/07/07 Robert Matas/Globe and Mail, Canada

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