The Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 concluded that Talwinder Singh Parmar " is now believed that he was the leader of the conspiracy to bomb Air India flights " Parmar later returned to India . He was killed in a gun fight with the Punjab police in 1992 . In July 2007 , the investigative magazine Tehelka reported that Parmar may have confessed to the Punjab police during interrogations preceding his death . He is accused of supplying the dynamite to Lakhbir Singh Rode , a nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale , who was claimed to have been the mastermind behind the bombing of Air India Flight 182 . Tehelka reported that Parmar had been interrogated in India between 9 and 14 October 1992 , by senior police officers , where he revealed that the Air India 182 blasts were instigated by Lakhbir Singh Rode
Air India Flight 182
Air India Flight 182
Talwinder Singh Parmar