A report revealed by the state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) claiming that Canada’s safety company “had a mole” within the group that hatched the plan to bomb an Air India flight in 1985 goes viral on social media.
The report revealed in 2003 claims that the Canadian Safety and Intelligence Service (CSIS) “pulled out the mole on the final minute so he would not be implicated”.
This contemporary outpour of anger on social media over the 21-year-old report comes at a time when India-Canada bilateral relations have descended to its lowest.
The strained relations between Ottawa and New Delhi went a number of notches decrease after Canadian PM Justin Trudeau levelled unsubstantiated fees towards Indian envoys, linking them to the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was additionally a Canadian citizen.
The CBC, based mostly on the doc launched by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) again then, had reported that Canada’s CSIS arrange a mole named Surjan Singh Gill who described himself because the consul-general of Khalistan.
The report mentions that Gill was “concerned proper from the beginning and was directed by ‘sure folks’ to remain concerned and study what was happening”.
Later, the Canadian authority requested Gill to “again out” as he could not be seen to be part of it.
“They advised him to get out of there. That issues are occurring and you may’t be seen as a part of that,” Sgt. Jim Hunter advised CBC.
The Canadian state media’s paperwork are based mostly on transcripts of an interview performed by the RCMP with Ajaib Singh Bagri, one of many accused in Air India bombings. Bagri was arrested in October 2000.
Gill finally left Canada to stay in London. He was by no means charged within the bombing of Air India Flight 182, which occurred in 1985, killing 329 folks off the coast of Eire, the CBC report claims.
In the identical report, it has been claimed that the CSIS destroyed “lots of of wiretaps referring to the Air India investigation”.
This yr in June, contradictory to the CBC report, Canadian legislation enforcement issued an announcement assuring that the probe into the bombing of Air India flight 182, the Kanishka, by Khalistani terrorists, stays lively and ongoing.
The assertion got here because the tragedy marked its thirty ninth memorial anniversary.
What occurred in 1985
On June 23, 1985, an Air India flight travelling from Canada to India by way of London exploded off the Irish coast, ensuing within the deaths of all 329 passengers and crew on board.
The explosion was attributable to a bomb hidden in a suitcase that had been transferred onto the flight regardless of the ticket holder not boarding. Among the many victims had been 268 Canadian residents, predominantly of Indian descent, and 24 Indian nationals. Solely 131 our bodies had been recovered from the ocean.
