BOMBAY: Lal Singh, Manjit Singh, a suspected militant and alleged brains behind the Air India “Kanishka” plane bombing tried to bite off his tongue to avoid interrogation by CBI sleuths, but is recovering in the ‘Santa Cruz police lock up in Bombay, capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said,
Police, who saw blood oozing from his mouth rushed him to a nearby hospital where he ‘was treated and his tongue stitched back,
Manjit’s first attempt to commit suicide by trying to consume a cyanide capsule on being nabbed at Dadar railway station was foiled by police.
A huge cache of arms was” seized in Ahmedabad following information providing by Manjit investigating agencies were eager to unearth his links with Pakistan intelligences wings ISI Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Global Arms Dealers,
USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had issued a warrant for his arrest in 198519 connection with plots to assassinate former Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi and former Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lalin the USA.
Article extracted from this publication >> Aug 14, 1992
