Wife of accused in Air India bombing was getting payments, court told

A man acquitted of the Air India bombing was making regular payments to the wife of a man who is now charged with perjury for lying at his trial, jurors heard Monday.
Inderjit Singh Reyat is accused of lying repeatedly at the trial of two men charged with mass murder.
On Monday, his perjury trial heard he knew one of them, Ripudaman Singh Malik, was paying his wife.
Mr. Reyat, a Duncan, B.C., auto electrician, was subpoenaed to testify in September 2003, and Mr. Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were later acquitted.
Jurors at the perjury trial have listened to Mr. Reyat's testimony in which he repeatedly testified he couldn't remember details of the events that led up to two Air India bombings that killed 331 people on June 23, 1985
In 2006, Mr. Reyat was charged with perjury.
His trial is unusual because there are no witnesses and the jury is relying on recordings of his three days on the stand.
The Crown maintains he lied 19 times while under oath, even saying he never knew the name of a Mr. X who stayed at his home for almost a week and with whom Mr. Reyat went shopping for bomb parts. Mr. Reyat testified he learned his wife was getting money after he was sentenced in 1991 to a decade in prison for his role in the deaths of two baggage handlers when a suitcase meant for an Air India plane exploded at Tokyo's Narita Airport.
In the recording, Crown lawyer Len Doust asked Mr. Reyat how his wife supported herself and their four children when he was behind bars.
“She was working in the pre-school,” Mr. Reyat said, later adding he knew Mr. Malik was paying her but never asked him or his wife, Satnam Kaur Reyat, how much money was changing hands.
13/09/10 Camille Bains/The Canadian Press/The Globe and Mail

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