It gained notoriety for killing 329 civilians ( mostly Canadians ) in Air India Flight 182 and for the 1985 Narita International Airport bombing . Despite the killing of innocent people , as the case is with most terrorist organisations , its supporters promote it as a resistance movement . BKI was created in 1978 after clashes with the Nirankari sect of Sikhs . It was active throughout the 1980s in the Punjab insurgency , though its influence declined in the 1990s after several of its senior leaders were killed in encounters with Indian police
Air India Flight 182
Air India Flight 182
Babbar Khalsa