The Canadian police have arrested two persons and charged them with first-degree murder in the targeted shooting of Ripudaman Singh Malik, the Sikh man acquitted in the tragic 1985 Air India Kanishka terrorist bombing case that killed 331 people.
A Canadian court has sentenced a 24-year-old man to life after he pleaded guilty to the killing of a Sikh businessman, a suspect in the 1985 Air India bombing who was later acquitted, according to local media reports.
Over the years, Khalistani extremists were further "emboldened" and started "operating with impunity" from Canada.
'This whole story is going to become extremely murky and that discovering who is an agent of the Indian government is not necessarily a simple matter.' 'And that if Trudeau was to name (the person) who he thinks is the connection with the Indian government, that the Indian government will be sure to have some deniability and will be able to say he had nothing to do with us.'
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the lone man convicted in the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing that killed 329 people, mostly Indians, on Friday appealed against his perjury conviction in Canada's worst case of terrorism.
The only person ever convicted in the 1985 Kanishka bombing recently went on trial for perjury, after he was accused of lying to protect the alleged suspects who were later acquitted.Inderjit Singh Reyat is on trial before a Canadian Court in the province of British Columbia on 19 charges of perjury, and stands accused of lying under oath in the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri. Reyat served more than 15 years in prison for manslaughter.
The lawyer-son of Ripudaman Singh Malik, acquitted in the Air India plane Kanishka Air bombing case, has been found guilty of professional misconduct by the Law Society of British Columbia.
The fire reportedly started simultaneously in the three buildings of the Punjabi school and spread rapidly. Deputy Fire Chief Tim Armstrong called the fire 'unusual'.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing in which 329 passengers were killed, on Monday appeared before a court in Vancouver to face perjury charges.
Malik had signed an "interim funding agreement" with the provincial government in 2002 to fund his 11-lawyer defence team. In 2004, Malik and his co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted of the mass murder of 331 people, including 22 Indians, in two separate 1985 bombings targeting Air India planes.
Reports say Malik has filed a writ against Oppal arguing that as he was wrongly charged he lost his reputation and his savings.
Narinder Singh Gill, a former Khalsa School volunteer who testified against Ripudaman Singh Malik, said he had to face numerous unexplained vandal attacks, a drive-by shooting and regular taunts for cooperating with police.
Canada wants Kanishka trial costs repaid
Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of the main accused in the Kanishka bombing who was acquitted in 2005, has won the right to limited participation at an upcoming inquiry into the tragedy.
The families of victims will be making a series of 15-minute oral submissions over the course of next two days.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, convicted bomb-maker in the 1985 Air India bombing case, has been charged with perjury arising from his testimony during the Kanishka trial.
The prosecution claims Reyat, who admitted a minor role in the bombing, was refusing to identify others in the plot.
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.
A Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent told the British Columbia Supreme Court that a prosecution witness alleged immigration fraud and misuse of funds against Ripudaman Singh Malik.
Malik claimed that he did not have money to pay his legal fees estimated at around \n\n$4.4 million
A perjury conviction can lead to a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.
rediff.com spoke to Vijayendra Ghatge, whose sister Sangeeta, was killed in the Kanishka bombing.
The verdict in the June 1985 bombing of Air-India Flight 182 came on Thursday morning.
The key witness said the Canadian prosecutor misunderstood many of things she told him in pre-trial interviews.
Malik claimed that he did not have money to pay his legal fees estimated at around \n\n$4.4 million
Ripudaman Singh Malik, 57, and Ajaib Singh Bagri, 55, are charged with planting bombs that exploded on June 23, 1985, aboard an Air-India plane on its way from Toronto to India via London. The mid-air explosion killed 329 people.
Meanwhile, Malik has initiated a lawsuit in Supreme Court in an attempt to reclaim his position as a director on\nthe Khalsa Credit Union.
Malik was shot dead in Surrey, British Columbia on Thursday. Malik and co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted in 2005 of mass murder and conspiracy charges related to the two bombings in 1985 that killed 331 people, the CBC News said.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal said the amount of material and the complexity of the case justified the month-long extension.
Opposition members of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons united on Tuesday to pass a motion calling for public inquiry.
Some witnesses burst into tears as Justice Ian Bruce Josephson ruled that Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik had not downed the plane.
"I had faith in god, but after the judgment I have lost the faith. I have lost the wish to live. Now I will be haunted by the knowledge that the killers of my family will be moving about freely."
The two accused are charged with planting bombs aboard an Air India plane that exploded on June 23, 1985, on its way from Toronto to India via London. The mid-air explosion killed 329 people.
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