HAMILTON, Ontario, Nov. 7, Reuter: A Canadian prosecutor said today that seven Sikhs accused of plotting to bomb targets in India had organized themselves in a tightly knit military type unit.
Prosecutor Dean Paquette was summing up in the trial of the Sikhs arrested last June on charges of conspiring to blow up the Indian Parliament buildings, railway tracks and an oil depot and to kidnap the child of a member of parliament,
The accused included Hardev (Talwinder) Singh Parmar, 42, the Canadian leader of the Babbar Khalsa, a fundamentalist sect striving to create an independent Sikh homeland of Khalistan.
The other six are Tejinder Singh Kaloe, 35, Surmukh Singh Lakhaian, 32, Daljit Singh Deol, 27, Sadhu Singh Thiara, 43, Rampal Singh Dhillon, 27, and Ajaib Singh Bagri, 37.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 14, 1986