Vancouver, June 05: A man suspected of being the Canadian intelligence agency's mole planted in a Sikh militant group prior to the Kanishka tragedy had explosives and airline tickets with him shortly before two bombs were allegedly checked onto flights at the Vancouver airport, a police officer has stated in an affidavit. Canada's spy agency intercepted a telephone call on June 21, 1985, between Surjan Singh Gill and the alleged mastermind of the scheme, Talwinder Singh Parmar, Royal Canadian Mountain Police (RCMP) constable Gary Clark-Marlow said in an affidavit sworn to obtain court approval for wire taps, a media report said.
Parmar and Gill spoke in code, stated constable Clark-Marlow, a member of the Air-India task force. The affidavit was among documents from the Air-India trial released last week after a publication ban was lifted. "Mr. Parmar asked Mr. Gill whether he had delivered those papers. Mr. Gill replied: Yes. Mr. Parmar then told him to deliver the clothes to the same place," the officer stated. "I believe that the 'papers' refers to the airline tickets and 'clothes' refers to the suitcase for the bombs," a Canadian daily quoted him as saying.
The revelation raises questions about the Air-India investigation and Gill's move to England in 2000, shortly before two other men were charged in the case. Before he left Canada, the RCMP had identified Gill as one of six main suspects in the Air-India case, recently released RCMP documents show.
Gill was never charged in the bombings.
Bureau Report