The Royal Canadian Mounted police (RCMP) has finally identified the mysterious man who helped test the bomb on Vancouver Island a few weeks before the air india bombing on June 23, 1985. However, the police have refused to reveal the name. The air india plane had flown from Montreal, canada and headed for Mumbai.
According to Canadian media reports, RCMP Assistant Commissioner David Teboul said that a previously unknown suspect in the mass murder case died recently without facing any charges. He said that due to privacy laws, the name of that person cannot be revealed even though he is dead.
Air india was bombed on 23 June 1985
David Tebul has made this disclosure before the 40th anniversary (23 June) of the incident in which all 329 (307 passengers and 22 crew members) on board the AI 182 plane were killed. Dozens of relatives of the victims arrived to attend the service, who died in the bomb blast in Air india Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland. When the bomb exploded, it was flying towards London.
The mysterious person had gone to Duncan with terrorist Talwinder Parmar
David Tebul said that despite the acquittal of two prime suspects in the bomb blast in 2005, the investigators continued to investigate the case. This helped them to know the identity of the mysterious person. The mysterious person named Mr. X had reached Duncan on 4 June 1985 with the mastermind of the terrorist plot, Talwinder Singh Parmar.
He said the two men then joined forces with electrician Inderjit Singh Reyat. Under the supervision of Canadian Security Intelligence service agents, the three men entered the jungle to test the bomb. Though the agents heard an explosion, they initially mistook it for a gunshot.
Parmar, founder of the Babbar Khalsa Sikh separatist group, was killed by punjab police in 1992 before he could be charged in the air india attack plot. Reyat confessed to helping Mr X and Parmar make the air india bomb.
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