Air India perjury sentencing opens

Another sentencing hearing begins in Vancouver on Wednesday for Inderjit Singh Reyat — the only man ever convicted in connection with the Air India bombing.
It will be the third time Reyat is sentenced over the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182, en route from Montreal to London and New Delhi. The 747 jet carrying 329 people fell from the sky off the coast of Ireland after an explosive device went off in the cargo hold.
Reyat was found guilty in September of perjury while testifying as a Crown witness at the 2003 trial of Ripudiman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri.
They had been charged with conspiring to blow up the Air India flight and of causing another explosion that killed two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Japan.
Bagri and Malik were acquitted, but seven years later the Crown proved that Reyat had lied under oath during their trial.
17/11/10 CBC News

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