Air India bomb maker loses sentence appeal
Posted March 13, 2014 10:36 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The only man convicted in connection with the Air India bombing has lost his appeal.
Inderjit Singh Reyat will have to serve his entire nine-year sentence for perjury; he was found guilty of lying during the 2003 trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri. He was found to have lied 19 times.
Both men were acquitted of masterminding the plot, but Reyat was earlier found guilty of making the bomb that blew up a plane over the Atlantic near Ireland, and another bomb that exploded at the Narita Airport in Tokyo.
A total of 331 people died in June, 1985. For that, he was convicted of manslaughter.
The BC Court of Appeal in the perjury case has found the offence was grave and incomparable to other cases.
Reyat’s nine-year sentence is the longest for perjury in Canadian history.
