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Canadians probe Air India bombing
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officials yesterday questioned two Babbar Khalsa terrorists inside the high-security Burail jail here for their alleged involvement in the mid-air bombing of Air India's Kanishka flight in June 1985.
- IANS
- Published: 23:42 November 12, 2008
Chandigarh: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officials yesterday questioned two Babbar Khalsa terrorists inside the high-security Burail jail here for their alleged involvement in the mid-air bombing of Air India's Kanishka flight in June 1985.
The RCMP officers questioned the two terrorists, Jagtar Singh Hawara and Paramjit Singh Bheora, in the presence of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Chandigarh police officials.
No details were made available about the interrogation of the terrorists carried out by RCMP officials.
Lawyers of Hawara and Bheora yesterday moved an application before the additional district and sessions judge R.K. Sondhi here seeking withdrawal of the permission granted by the court to the RCMP to question the two.
They objected to the permission saying the RCMP had no territorial jurisdiction to do so and that, too, when both were in judicial custody. The judge put the case up for hearing November 17 even as both were questioned yesterday.
1995 murder
Both terrorists are lodged in the prison after a local court here sentenced them to death last year for their involvement in the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh in August 1995.
The Mounties are re-investigating the Kanishka bombing to arrive at fresh evidence to nail suspects acquitted in the case.
The RCMP had in January this year asked the security agencies here for help to interview 12 witnesses who it pointed out could have information regarding the Kanishka bombing, which left all 329 passengers on board the aircraft dead near the coast of Ireland. The flight had taken off from Toronto.
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