'Sikh service for Air India mastermind wrong'

Vancouver: A man whose daughter died in the 1985 Air India bombing says it's wrong to honour a man considered the mastermind of the blast that also claimed 328 other lives.
Rattan Singh Kalsi said Wednesday that a Sikh religious service, known as an akhand path, should not be used to memorialize someone connected to such a heinous crime.
But the president of the Sikh temple in suburban Surrey where the event was held said he can't deny people's requests to hold such services.
The memorial for Talwinder Singh Parmar, who is believed to have plotted the terrorist bombing to retaliate against the government-owned airline, was held at a Surrey, B.C., Sikh temple earlier this month.
"That's wrong, that's very wrong," said Kalsi, from his home in London, Ont. "He should not be treated like this. I lost a daughter."
Indira Kalsi, 21, boarded the ill-fated Boeing 747 for a trip to India when a suitcase bomb exploded on board, plunging the plane into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland.
31/10/07 The Canadian Press

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