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Air-India trial to move to secret location

Source: PTI
Last updated on: April 21, 2004 19:09 IST
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The Air-India trial will move next week to an undisclosed warehouse, where the wreckage of the ill-fated Kanishka, destroyed in the 1985 bombing that killed all 329 people onboard, is being reconstructed.

Owing to security concerns, only the judge, lawyers and witnesses will travel to the location, where they will see the plane's reconstruction, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Vancouver.

Accused Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik, along with the public and the Press, will not be allowed inside. However, they can see the proceedings via close circuit television.

Crown spokesman Geoff Paul said, "The images that will be on the screen will be the evidence and the witnesses, as they're describing the evidence."

Paul said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been reconstructing the plane for more than a year and a half from the recovered debris.

He said it was a 'limited reconstruction' and would form part of the prosecution.

Expert witnesses will testify on what kind of bomb was used and where it was placed on the plane, the corporation said.

Complete coverage: The Kanishka bombing

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