In interviews with Punjabi media, Bains delivered this bombshell revelation that there has been many lies told by both the Indian and Canadian government about the Air India case and how Bains’ organization had clear evidence, including ex-Punjab police officer testimony, that main Air India accused but never charged or tried Talwinder Singh Parmar was captured by Punjabi police, interrogated, tortured and then killed in custody but made to look like an encounter killing. Canadian government has not come forward to address Bains’ accusations or what they thought of his evidence and his recent statements about a possible Air India conspiracy.
By R. Paul Dhillon
SURREY – During his recent visit to Canada to attend the annual Human Rights events organized by the World Sikh Organization, Rajvinder Singh Bains, prominent Punjab human right activist and an advocate with the Punjab and Haryana High Court, delivered some bombshell revelations about the Air India case which no mainstream media even paid attention to or even has the balls to cover.
In interviews with Punjabi media, Bains delivered this bombshell revelation that there has been many lies told by both the Indian and Canadian government about the Air India case and how Bains’ organization had clear evidence, including ex-Punjab police officer testimony, that main Air India accused but never charged or tried Talwinder Singh Parmar was captured by Punjabi police, interrogated, tortured and then killed in custody but made to look like an encounter killing.
“Why would you capture this dreaded militant (Parmar) and not ask him about the Air India bombing or at least hand him over to the Canadian government since he was wanted in Canada – why would they do that,” Bains asked. “You would do that if you have something to hide.”
While India obviously has been hiding the truth about its role in the Air India bombing, including allegations that Parmar may have been a double agent, but even the Canadian government is complicit in this conspiracy, Bains told a local Punjabi TV program hosted by Gurpreet Singh.
Bains said he was asked to come to give evidence at the Air India inquiry under the Stephen Harper Conservative government which was led by John Major but when Bains and his team got to Canada with all their evidence, which Canadian authorities were given copies of, Bains and his team were not allowed to give evidence at the inquiry and none of this was highlighted by the so-called investigative mainstream media, which has stuck to the story that Air India was the work of small group of militant Sikhs seeking revenge for the 1984 attack on the Golden Temple by the Indian government.
“The reason that that they didn’t let us reveal our findings which have been confirmed by numerous sources – I’m only led to believe that both the Indian and Canadian government doesn’t want the truth to come out,” Bains told interviewer Singh in Punjabi
Bains was clear that India had a hand in the bombing and that Canada was helping it to hide this truth and unnecessarily pin the bombing on the Canadian Sikh community. While the Air India case is full of conspiracy theories, but it has been previously pointed out by many that the Air India tragedy was the handi-work of the Indian government agents and their contacts and possibly cells in Canada to discredit the Sikh community which was being seen as a victim after the attack on the Golden Temple and killing of thousands of innocent Sikhs.
Bains concluded that by not letting them give evidence, the Canadian government wanted to hide the truth.
“This was the only reason why my team was not allowed to give their evidence at the Air India inquiry,” he said.
Canadian government has not come forward to address Bains’ accusations or what they thought of his evidence and his recent statements about a possible Air India conspiracy.
Bains is a prominent human rights activist and served as lawyer for the family of Jaswant Singh Khalra, who was murdered by Punjab Police after returning from Canada where he had revealed evidence of the disappearances of thousands of young men in Punjab.
Bains talked about the historical roots of conflict in Punjab and how even the legitimate and democratic demands of the people of Punjab were dismissed as communal, resulting in widespread disillusionment.
