Main suspects of Air India Flight 182

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   The main suspects in the bombing were the members of a Sikh separatist group called the Babbar Khalsa (banned in Europe and the United States as a proscribed terrorist group) and other related groups who were at the time agitating for a separate Sikh state called Khalistan in Punjab, India.
   Talwinder Singh Parmar, a Canadian citizen born in Punjab, living in British Columbia was a high ranking official in the Babbar Khalsa, and his phone was being tapped by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for three months before the bombing. He was killed by the Punjab police in 1992 while in custody.
   Inderjit Singh Reyat was living in Duncan on Vancouver Island and working as an auto mechanic and electrician. Investigation of the bomb in Tokyo led to discovery of his buying a Sanyo radio, clocks and other parts found in the blast. It was reported that he had asked for help in constructing devices with clocks and explosives. He was convicted of manslaughter in constructing the bomb. As part of a deal, he was to testify against others, but as he declined to implicate others, he would be the only suspect convicted in the case.
   Ripudaman Singh Malik was a Vancouver businessman who helped fund a credit union and several Khalsa Schools. Recently he was found not guilty of any involvement in the bombings.
   Ajaib Singh Bagri was a mill worker living in Kamloops. He said in a 1984 speech, after Hindu Mobs had murdered thousands of Sikhs in Delhi that "Until we kill 50,000 Hindus, we will not rest." He, along with Ripudaman Singh Malik was found not guilty in 2007.
   Surjan Singh Gill was living in Vancouver as the self-proclaimed consul-general of Khalistan. Some RCMP testimony claimed he was a mole who left the plot just days before execution because he was told to pull out, but the Canadian government denies that report. He later fled Canada and is believed to be in hiding in London, England.
   Hardial Singh Johal and Manmohan Singh were both followers of Parmar and active in the gurdwaras where he preached. On 15 November 2002, Johal died of natural causes at 55. His phone number was left after ordering the airline tickets, he was seen at the airport the day the flights loaded, and had allegedly stored the suitcases with bombs in the basement of a Vancouver school but was never charged in the case.
   Daljit Sandhu is later named by a Crown witness as the man who picked up the tickets for the bombing. During the trial the Crown played a video from January 1989, in which Sandhu congratulated the families of Indira Gandhi's assassins and stated that "she deserved that and she invited that and that's why she got it". Sandhu was cleared by Judge Ian Josephson in his 16 March judgment.
   Lakhbir Singh Brar Rode, the leader of the Sikh separatist organization International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF). An alleged confession by Parmar names him as the mastermind, but the details do not appear to tally with other available evidence.
   On 6 November 1985 the RCMP raided the homes of the suspected Sikh separatists, Talwinder Singh Parmar, Inderjit Singh Reyat, Surjan Singh Gill, Hardial Singh Johal, and Manmohan Singh.
   In September 2007, the Commission investigated reports, initially disclosed in the Indian investigative news magazine Tehelka that a hitherto unnamed person, Lakhbir Singh Brar Rode, had masterminded the explosions. This report appears to be inconsistent with other evidence known to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

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