Reyat sentencing not enough: Kanishka co-pilot’s widow

Ludhiana: While a Canadian Court last Friday sentenced the only person ever convicted for the 1985 Kanishka bombing to nine years in prison, Amarjit Kaur Bhinder, widow of the plane’s co-pilot, Capt SS Bhinder, says there is little solace in this development.
British Columbia Superior Court Judge Mark McEwan, who handed the sentence to Inderjit Singh Reyat, found the latter guilty of perjury (lying under oath) during the 2003 trial of the case, in which the two main accused Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, were acquitted. The court has found that Reyat misled the court 19 times in three days of testimony that began in September 2003.
Amarjit Kaur Bhinder talking to The Indian Express over the phone said, “There is nothing to celebrate for there is no closure in this case. The loss of 329 innocent lives is too much and the real culprits should be brought to book. This man should name the real people behind the tragedy and they should be punished.”
11/01/11 Amrita Chaudhry/Indian Express

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