Oakville Beaver: Susheel Gupta was only 12 years old when his mother died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985 — considered to be the largest mass murder in Canadian history.
On Wednesday, Nov. 25, the vice-chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) and former federal prosecutor, shared the story of the incident at Oakville’s Abbey Park High School (APHS), noting how it led him to become a lawyer.
Gupta was the keynote speaker at the APHS Legal Eagles’ third annual Youth in Law and Justice Evening, which also featured a question-and-answer panel session with Gupta and three others from various law-related professions.
Other panelists included: Halton Regional Police Deputy Chief Carol Crowe, Marcia Oliver, a Wilfrid Laurier University law and society assistant professor and lawyer Nicholas Fur.
The Legal Eagles started three years ago with the help of former students Kristi Meta and Jude Haj Ali, and is a year-round, extracurricular, 30-member group that runs weekly meetings to debate current events and work on multiple projects.
On June 23, 1985, a detonation on Air India Flight 182 caused the plane to crash into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland. The plane was en route to New Delhi from Montreal and the blast killed all 329 passengers, mostly Canadians, including Gupta’s mother.
“I woke up to the sound of our home phone ringing at about 6:35 a.m. Within minutes, my father told my big brother and I that our mother was gone. Her plane crashed and she was dead. The sound of my father’s pain still echoes in my ears today,” said Gupta.
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On Wednesday, Nov. 25, the vice-chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) and former federal prosecutor, shared the story of the incident at Oakville’s Abbey Park High School (APHS), noting how it led him to become a lawyer.
Gupta was the keynote speaker at the APHS Legal Eagles’ third annual Youth in Law and Justice Evening, which also featured a question-and-answer panel session with Gupta and three others from various law-related professions.
Other panelists included: Halton Regional Police Deputy Chief Carol Crowe, Marcia Oliver, a Wilfrid Laurier University law and society assistant professor and lawyer Nicholas Fur.
The Legal Eagles started three years ago with the help of former students Kristi Meta and Jude Haj Ali, and is a year-round, extracurricular, 30-member group that runs weekly meetings to debate current events and work on multiple projects.
On June 23, 1985, a detonation on Air India Flight 182 caused the plane to crash into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland. The plane was en route to New Delhi from Montreal and the blast killed all 329 passengers, mostly Canadians, including Gupta’s mother.
“I woke up to the sound of our home phone ringing at about 6:35 a.m. Within minutes, my father told my big brother and I that our mother was gone. Her plane crashed and she was dead. The sound of my father’s pain still echoes in my ears today,” said Gupta.
07/12/15 Nathan Howes/IndiseHalton.com
