Tickets of Air India Flight 182

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   The Boeing 747-237B Emperor Kanishka, delivered to Air India on 26 June 1978, flew from Toronto to Montréal as AI181 and from Montréal to Bombay, via London and Delhi, as AI182.
   Moments after a wiretapped phonecall with Parmar on June 20, 1985, at 0100 GMT, a man calling himself Mr. Singh made reservations for two flights on 22 June: one for "Jaswant Singh" to fly from Vancouver to Toronto on Canadian Pacific (CP) Air Lines Flight 086 and one for "Mohinderbel Singh" to fly from Vancouver to Tokyo on CP Air Lines Flight 003 and connect onward on Air India (AI) Flight 301 to Bangkok. At 0220 GMT on the same day, another call was made, changing the reservation in the name of "Jaswant Singh" from CP 086 to CP 060, also flying from Vancouver to Toronto. The caller further requested to be wait-listed on AI 181 from Toronto to Montreal and AI 182 from Montreal to Bombay. The next day at 1910 GMT, a man wearing a turban paid for the two tickets with $3,005 in cash at a CP ticket office in Vancouver. The names on the reservations were changed: "Jaswant Singh" became "M. Singh" and "Mohinderbel Singh" became "L. Singh". The reservation and purchase of these tickets together would be used as evidence to link the two flights to one plot, despite some claims that the two explosions were only a coincidence.
   One telephone number left as a contact was Vancouver's Ross Street Sikh temple. The other number became one of the first leads tracked by investigators, and was traced to Hardial Singh Johal who was janitor at a high school in Vancouver. Johal was an avid follower of Talwinder Singh Parmar, and thus closely eyed in the investigation following the Air India bombing. He was alleged to have stored the suitcase explosives in the basement of a Vancouver school, and to have purchased the tickets for the flights on which the bombs were placed, and was seen at the airport the day of the bombing.
   The initial phone conversation, as translated, included the following exchange;
   Parmar: Did he write the story?
   Johal: No he didn't.
   Parmar: Do that work first.
   It is believed that "writing the story" referred to purchasing the tickets for the flight, and after the tickets were purchased, Johal phoned Parmar back and asked if he could "come over and read the story he asked for", to which Parmar agreed.
   Reyat went to work June 21, and phone records show he called Johal at 7:17PM. A witness whose name was protected testified that Bagri asked to borrow her car the night before the bombing to take some suitcases to the airport, though he himself would not be flying with them.

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