Friday, November 28, 2008
Canadian police in India in continuing probe of 1985 Air India bombing
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has sent five officers to India in its continuing probe of the 23-year old tragedy when Kanishka, the Air India Flight 182 was bombed out of the sky over Ireland killing 329 people, most of them Canadian of Indian origin.
According to press reports in India (Times of India) and Canada (Canadian Press), the five officers met the Director General of Punjab Police on November 12 in Chandigarh and were meeting two alleged Sikh extremists, Jagtar Singh Hawara and Paramjit Singh Bheora, in the high security Burail prison. The two are Babbar Khalsa members are under a death sentence for a 1995 assassination of one-time Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
According to the Times of India report, the RCMP had received permission to interview 12 persons who might have new information on that 1985 bombing.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
According to press reports in India (Times of India) and Canada (Canadian Press), the five officers met the Director General of Punjab Police on November 12 in Chandigarh and were meeting two alleged Sikh extremists, Jagtar Singh Hawara and Paramjit Singh Bheora, in the high security Burail prison. The two are Babbar Khalsa members are under a death sentence for a 1995 assassination of one-time Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
According to the Times of India report, the RCMP had received permission to interview 12 persons who might have new information on that 1985 bombing.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Labels: 1985 bombing, Air India bombing, Air India Flight 182, Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police, continuing probe of the 23-year old tragedy, high security Burail prison, Ireland
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