Malik battles Air India lawsuit

Vancouver: Lawyers for the B.C. attorney-general withheld evidence when they got a court order allowing them to execute search warrants last fall on the home of Vancouver businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik, B.C. Supreme Court heard yesterday.
Lawyer Gary Nelson, who is representing Malik's son Jaspreet, argued that the order allowing the searches, which also involved Jaspreet's law office, should be set aside for several reasons, including the lack of full disclosure by the attorney-general.
The B.C. government is suing Ripudaman, Jaspreet and other Malik family members, to recoup millions loaned to the patriarch to pay for his successful defence team in the Air India bombing trial.
But lawyers representing Malik, his wife and three eldest sons are fighting the government's tactics, alleging misrepresentation of the facts related to the defence funding.
Malik has also filed a countersuit, which he hopes will be heard along with the government's case, alleging that he was maliciously prosecuted to advance the political career of Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh.
Dosanjh, who was premier of B.C. when Malik was charged in the Air India bombing in October 2000, told The Vancouver Sun last week that Malik's allegation was "bonkers."
22/01/08 Kim Bolan/Canwest News Service/Times Colonist, Canada

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