Kanishka bombing: KPS Gill to depose

Chandigarh: Former Punjab DGP KPS Gill is ready to depose before a Canadian commission of inquiry set up last year to hear afresh the Kanishka bombing case in which 325 persons were killed aboard an Air India Boeing flight in 1985.
Gill’s willingness to tell his side of the story has come after two members of the Punjab Human Rights Organisation (PHRO) deposed on Monday before the Commission in Canada and claimed that Talwinder Singh Parmar — who was head of separatist outfit Babbar Khalsa International and one of the prime suspects in the bombing — had confessed to his and others’ involvement in the attack during interrogations by Punjab Police in 1992.
If PHRO’s claims turn out to be true it could cause embarrassment to the Canadian authorities that had charged Parmar with weapons, explosives and conspiracy offences five months after the tragedy but later dropped the charges.
26/09/07 Rohit Mullick/Times of India

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