A defence lawyer said the Canadian police encouraged the key witness to obtain information from convicted Inderjit Singh Reyat and his wife.
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 Indian man convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing, which claimed 329 lives when the aircraft exploded off the coast of Ireland, has reportedly asked the Canadian Supreme Court to overturn his perjury conviction. Inderjit Singh Reyat had already served ten years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter for his role as the bomb maker.
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.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people, was sentenced in Vancouver to nine years in prison for perjury during the trial of two men acquitted in the attacks.
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.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man convicted in the 1985 bombing of Air India Kanishka that killed 329 passengers, is set to face perjury charges in the case.
A Canadian court has dismissed a jury in the perjury trial of Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 passengers.
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.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted for the 1985 Air India bombing, completed his manslaughter sentence but was not released as he is awaiting a fresh trial on perjury charge.
Didar and Prit Reyat submitted inflated bills on which Martin signed off before sending them on for payment.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man convicted in the bombing of an Air India flight in 1985, was granted bail on Wednesday by a Canadian court after he spent more than two decades in prison.Reyat has served more than 20 years for two separate convictions related to the bombing of the Air India flight 182, off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985, which claimed 329 lives.In May 1991, he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted in connection with the 1985 Air India bombing that killed all 329 people aboard, will not get parole before his sentence ends next year.
A lawyer of the British Columbia government in Canada said Reyat will continue to be held in jail on a 2006 arrest warrant for perjury charges after his current manslaughter sentence expires this week. It will be up to him to ask the court for bail.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man convicted in Air India bombing, who is facing perjury charges may be out of prison in two weeks when he completes his present prison term on February 9.
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.
Despite Reyat's guilty plea in the Air India case, he did not provide evidence to implicate Malik and Bagri both of whom were acquitted March, 2004.
Reyat, a former Duncan electrician, could be imprisoned for an additional 14 years if convicted of perjury.
The prosecution claims Reyat, who admitted a minor role in the bombing, was refusing to identify others in the plot.
A perjury conviction can lead to a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.
Because he has served two-thirds of his five-year sentence, Reyat was automatically due for parole in June.
The Canadian government wanted to treat one of its own key witnesses, Inderjit Singh Reyat, as hostile.
Key witness in the Air India trial Inderjit Singh Reyat's daughter was married to former leader of Babbar Khalsa who faced terrorism charges in the case.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing, has been released from a halfway house and is now free to live where he chooses, according to a new decision from the Parole Board of Canada.
Reyat was convicted of perjury in 2010 for lying to the court in 2003 during the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were acquitted in the terrorist attack on Air India Flight 182 that killed all 329 people aboard.
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