Talwinder Singh Parmar

Born

February 26, 1944

Died

October 15, 1992 (aged 48)

Talwinder Singh Parmar was a Sikh militant and the mastermind of the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing, which killed 329 people. It was the worst single incident of aviation terrorism in history until the September 11 attacks in the United States. In addition, another bomb was meant to explode aboard Air India Flight 301 in Japan the same day, but it exploded while the plane was still grounded, killing two people. Parmar was also the founder, leader, and jathedar of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), a Sikh militant group involved in the Khalistan movement. He expanded BKI internationally into Canada and Germany.

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