Air India bomber gets 9 years for perjury

Convicted Air India bomber Inderjit Singh Reyat was sentenced Friday in Vancouver to nine years for perjury stemming from his time as a Crown witness during a 2003 trial.
In handing down his sentence, B.C. Supreme Court Judge Mark McEwan said Reyat was "nothing like a remorseful man."
Reyat will receive 17 months credit for time spent in pre-trial custody, reducing his sentence to seven years and seven months. Crown prosecutors had sought the maximum sentence for perjury of 14 years.
Reyat had been in custody since September, when he was found guilty of perjury during the 2003 trial of Ripudiman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri.
The two men had been charged with conspiring to blow up Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985, and of causing another explosion the same day that killed two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Tokyo.
The 747 jet was off the coast of Ireland, en route from Montreal to London, England, and New Delhi when an explosive device went off in the cargo hold, killing all 329 people aboard. Malik and Bagri were eventually acquitted. Seven years later, on Sept. 18, 2010, the Crown proved that Reyat had lied repeatedly under oath during their trial.
07/01/11 CBC News, Canada

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