Man acquitted in Air India bombings names the conspirators

Toronto: Ripudaman Singh Malik, acquitted in 2005 in the 1985 Air India bombing case, has now named Inderjit Singh Reyat and Talwinder Singh Parmar as conspirators of the plot that killed 331 people.
Malik claimed the police had prior knowledge of the plot to blow up the two planes, but failed to stop it because of their "negligence". He named Reyat and Parmar as the plot conspirators.
Reyat is in jail for his role in making the bombs that killed 329 aboard Kaniskha flight 182 and two baggage handlers at Tokyo airport on June 23, 1985.
Punjab police killed Parmar in an encounter in 1992 after he fled Canada. Malik had earlier admitted to being their financial backers.
Malik has also blamed the then British Colombia premier Ujjal Dosanjh for framing him in the case in October 2000.
In his counter-suit to the government of British Columbia's suit seeking $6 million from him as costs of his legal defence during the trial, which ended in his acquittal in March 2005, he claimed that he was arrested "with ulterior motives, including the political gain of its then premier Ujjal Dosanjh".
18/01/08 Gurmukh Singh/IANS/Khabrein.info

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