In May 1986, five members of the Khalistani terrorist organisation Babbar Khalsa were charged with plotting to blow up Air India Flight 112 in New York City and Santokh Singh Khela was one of the two you was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminding the plot
Multiple flights were disrupted on 15th October due to hoax bomb threats, coinciding with the death anniversary of Khalistani terrorist Talwinder Singh Parmar.
In 1982, then PM Pierre Trudeau sheilded Khalistani terrorist Talwinder Singh Parmar who later planned the bombing Indian aircraft Kanishka killing 329 people out of which 268 were Canadian citizens.