Hijacker denied right to become a lawyer in Ontario

Toronto: A man convicted of hijacking a 1984 Air India flight and who has battling Canada's immigration system for more than a decade doesn't have sufficiently good character to practice law in Ontario, the province's law society has decided.
Parminder Singh Saini, who was jailed in Pakistan for 10 years before coming to Canada with fake identification, applied for inclusion in the Upper Canada Law Society in 2006. His application was denied in a ruling last week.
Mr. Saini led the militant Sikh student organization that hijacked the plane, bound from Srinagar to New Delhi, with 264 people on board. The plane landed safely in Lahore and no one was hurt.
Mr. Saini was originally sentenced to death, then given a life sentence. He was released on parole in 1994 and came to Canada with a fake passport and name in 1995 to join family in Brampton, Ont. He was detained for years by immigration authorities, and while battling multiple deportation orders, got a political science degree from York University and a law degree from the University of Windsor.
20/01/10 Anna Mehler-Paperny/ Globe and Mail, Canada

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