Evidence Mounts Of Parmar’s Fake Encounter

Chandigarh: New revelations that Talwinder Singh Parmar, the alleged mastermind of the 1985 Kanishka airplane blast and Babbar Khalsa International chief, was killed by the Punjab Police (PP) in a staged encounter in 1992 have forced the Canadian authorities investigating the case to re-examine Parmar’s killing. Parmar was a Canadian citizen at the time of his death, and a team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is readying to fly to India after former DSP Harmail Singh Chandi produced for the first time the confession of Parmar extracted by the PP just before his killing. The pp, which had covered itself in glory after killing Parmar, has gone red in the face.
Tehelka’s breaking story (Operation Silence, August, 2007) on Parmar’s illegal murder has been taken on record by the John Major Commission of Inquiry set up by the Canadian government in 2006 to re-examine the June 23, 1985 Kanishka blast. Spokesperson for the Commission, Michael Tansey, told Tehelka: “We are aware of the Tehelka article. It has sparked off a lot of attention here. We intend to look at the information to determine its veracity and try and corroborate it. The Commission will resume its proceedings on September 10.” Tansey said that the criminal investigation was for the RCMP to follow, but the circumstances surrounding Parmar’s death are “within the mandate of the Commission”.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Major told Canadian reporters that the Tehelka article falls under the “terms of reference (of the inquiry), so we really do not have an option.”
11/08/07 Vikram Jit Singh/Tehelka

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