CHANDIGARH: A team of police personnel from Canada on Tuesday held talks with the top brass of Chandigarh police and CBI here in connection with the bombing of Air India flight ‘Kanishka’ in 1985.

The five-member team is on a visit to Chandigarh and Punjab to probe a few leads in connection with the incident in which 329 people on board the Toronto-Delhi Boeing 747 flight were killed.

The top brass of Chandigarh police remained tight lipped on the issue. However, police sources said the cops provided necessary cooperation to the Canadian team.

The team had confabulations for about 15-minute with IG S.K. Jain. – PTI

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Canadian police arrive in India to probe 1985 airline bombing

CHANDIGARH, India — Five Canadian police officers are in India to investigate the Air India bombing.

Indian police say the RCMP team met the director-general of police of Punjab state Wednesday in the city of Chandigarh. Police spokesman A.P. Virdi says the Mounties plan to interview two Sikh separatists sentenced to death for killing the top elected official of Punjab in 1995.

Police suspect the men were linked to people thought to be involved in the Air India bombing.

The 1985 bombing of an Air India flight killed 329 people, most of them Canadian citizens of Indian origin.

Only one person, Inderjit Singh Reyat, has been convicted in the case, but the RCMP has maintained the investigation remains active.

Reyat was convicted for his role in gathering materials for the bomb.

The bombing of the Toronto to London flight has been widely blamed on Sikh separatists who used British Columbia as a base for their independence campaign in northern India.

It’s suspected Sikh extremists bombed the government-owned airliner in retaliation for a 1984 Indian army raid on the Golden Temple - Sikhism’s holiest shrine. The Indian government crushed the separatist campaign in Punjab state in the early 1990s.

Two men charged in the attacks, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted of all charges in the bombing.

After the acquittals a public inquiry was ordered to review how authorities handled the case.

The inquiry wrapped up its testimony in the Spring, but it has not issued its report.

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