A chief engineer for the Vancouver School Board, Hardial Singh Johal was an avid follower of Talwinder Singh Parmar, and thus closely eyed in the investigation following the bombing of Air India Flight 182. He was alleged to have stored the suitcase explosives in the basement of a Vancouver school, and to have purchased the tickets for the flights on which the bombs were placed. The initial phone conversation, as translated, included the following exchange; Parmar: Did he write the story?Johal: No he didn't.Parmar: Do that work first.