Air India bomber loses perjury appeal, faces record 9-year term

Vancouver: British Columbia’s highest court upheld a perjury conviction Thursday for Air India bomber Inderjit Singh Reyat, who repeatedly lied at the trial of two men who were acquitted in the worst case of aviation terrorism before 9-11.
Three judges of the B.C. Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed the man’s bid for a new trial, cementing his nine-year sentence, which is believed to be the longest perjury sentence in Canadian history.
Reyat, 59, was a Crown witness at the 2003 trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were acquitted of mass murder and conspiracy in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. The plane was targeted on June 23, 1985, killing 329 people, mostly Canadian citizens.
Reyat’s testimony was part of a deal that saw him plead guilty to manslaughter in the bombing of the plane and receive a controversial five-year sentence. He also served an earlier 10-year sentence for manslaughter for the deaths of two airport baggage handlers in Tokyo that happened on the same day.
20/07/12 Herald News

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