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Kanishka Bombing Case
Feb. 11, 2003
Accused
in Kanishka bombing pleads guilty
In a dramatic development, Inderjit Singh Reyat, an accused in the
1985 bombing of the Air India jetliner Kanishka, has pleaded guilty to
manslaughter charges. He has been given a five- year prison sentence.
Jan. 12, 2001
A-I bomb ruling
pleases Canadian police
Police said on
Thursday they are pleased a judge refused bail for two men
charged with the 1985 Air India bombing, and still expect
additional arrests for the attack that killed 329 people.
Jan. 11, 2001
Judge refuses bail
to A-I bomb suspects
A Canadian judge
refused to grant bail on Wednesday to two Sikh activists
charged with the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182, which
killed 329 people in the deadliest-ever act of civilian
aviation sabotage.
Jan. 03, 2001
Order on A-I
bombers' bail plea reserved
A judge reserved
his ruling on Tuesday on a bail request for the two men
charged with the 1985 bombing of an Air-India jet that killed
329 people in history's deadliest act of civilian aviation
sabotage.
Jan. 01, 2001
Decision
on A-I bombers’ bail this week
British Columbia
Supreme Court Judge Patrick Dohm will decide on the bail
petition of Air India bombing suspects Ripudam Singh Malik and
Ajaib Singh Bagri during the first week of
January.
Dec. 22, 2000
Kanishka
bombing suspects seek bail
Details of the proceedings could not
be revealed after Malik's lawyer asked for, and received, a publication
ban from the court.
Dec. 21, 2000
Bail
hearing of A-I bombing accused Thursday
The
Supreme Court in Canada's British Columbia province will hear
the applications for bail put forward by the two accused in
the 1985 bombing of an Air-India plane on
Thursday.
Dec. 13, 2000
'SBI gave $2m loan
to A-I bombing accused'
The State Bank of
India (SBI) reportedly gave a loan of $2 million to
Vancouver-based Papillion Eastern Imports Ltd., owned by
Indo-Canadian Ripudaman Singh Malik who has been charged in
the 1985 Air-India bombing case, a newspaper reported
here.
Dec. 01, 2000
Kanishka witnesses
allege intimidation
The Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP) has warned radical Sikh groups in
Pakistan and Canada to stay away from the witnesses in the Air
India bombing case or face the full wrath of the law.
Kanishka
bombing suspects' custody extended: AFP
There are reports that
some of the witnesses in the case were being threatened.
Nov 08, 2000
India,
Canada to sign pact to assist in bombing case
Chandigarh: India and Canada will sign
a mutual legal assistance agreement later this November to speedily
bring to justice those named recently in a decade-old bombing of an
Air-India flight, a Punjab Police source said.
Nov 03, 2000
Air-India
bombing suspect will push for bail
Vancouver
— One of two alleged Sikh religious extremists charged with the 1985
bombing of an Air-India jet that killed 329 people will likely ask a
Canadian court to release him on bail next week, his attorney said
Friday.
Nov 02, 2000
The onus is on Ujjal Dosanjh
Why do many in the media insist on marginalizing Ujjal Dosanjh?
Although he is the first Indo-Canadian to hold the office of
premier, reporters run to his door for a comment every time an event
unfolds within the Indo-Canadian community. No other politician has
to answer such questions.
Did
RCMP bungle the Air-India
bombing case?
Legal bunglings, release of third suspect
seen as sign of disarray, critics
charge
VANCOUVER -- The high-profile
Air-India bombing investigation is going extremely well, RCMP Constable
Cate Galliford said yesterday. After a 15-year investigation into the bloodiest terrorist attack in
aviation history, the longest and most expensive police investigation in
Canadian history, police arrested two suspects last week and charged them
with murder. A mid-air bomb explosion aboard an Air-India flight en route
from Canada to England killed 329 people on June 23, 1985.
Reflections on a tragedy:
Sikhs must condemn terrorism, just as they
condemn
crimes against Sikhs.
I was vacationing in California on June 23, 1985, when the television
interrupted its regular program to announce that Air-India's Flight 182
from Toronto to Bombay had crashed in the Atlantic off the coast of
Ireland.
Govt
won't stop funding Malik's schools
Toronto:
The government in the Canadian province of British Columbia
has said that it will continue to give Canadian $3 million
annually to two Sikh schools started by Ripudaman Singh
Malik,
one of the two arrested suspects charged with the bombing of
an Air-India plane in June 1985.
Reyat
may not be charged for A-I
bombing
Vancouver: Inderjit Singh
Reyat,
undergoing a ten-year sentence for an explosion at Tokyo's
Narita Airport, may not be charged in the 1985 bombing of
Air-India flight 182 which killed 329 people off Ireland coast
even though he remains a top suspect, CBC Radio News here
said.
Militants
threaten a journalist for giving a talk on AI
bombing
Vancouver: A Sikh journalist, who
participated in a talk show on the arrest of Sikh militants in
the Air India bombing case, has been threatened of dire
consequences by the members of extremist groups here.
Nov
01,
2000
| Two sons of Ripudaman Singh Malik, Jaspreet (left) and
Darsham (right), leave Vancouver court on Monday after their
father appeared on murder charges for the 1985 bombings of an
Air India jet over the Atlantic and a related bombing at Tokyo’s
Narita airport. |
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A-I
bombing plotter is a lifer in Japan
Toronto:
An alleged co-conspirator in the bombing of Air-India's
Kanishka plane on June 23, 1985, in which all 325 people on
board were killed, is currently serving life sentence in
connection with another blast at Tokyo's Narita Airport,
according to a Canadian daily.
Militants target
journalist for talking of bombing
The journalist, who
participated in a talk show on the arrest of Sikh militants in the Air
India bombing case, was threatened of dire consequences by members of
extremist groups in Vancouver.
Accused
arrested while preparing to go to Pakistan: PTI
But, his
lawyer, Terry La Liberte denied that his client was planning an escape.
"Anybody who knows Malik knows he travels extensively," he said.
‘Jokes
on Sikhs angered Malik’
FEROZEPORE
— Old friends of Ripudaman Singh Malik, who has been
arrested by Canadian police for the blast in the Kanishka
airbus carrying 329 passengers in 1985, remember him as a
staunch Sikh.
Third
suspect in AI bombing case released
Toronto:
A third Indo-Canadian suspect, who was arrested two days ago
for his alleged involvement in the bombing of an Air-India
plane in 1985, has been released without any charges being
filed against him, police said.
Air-India
bomb suspects appear in court
Vancouver:
More than 15 years after the death of 329 people in history's
deadliest act of aviation sabotage, two suspected Sikh
religious extremists appeared in court on Monday to face
murder charges.
Malik, Bagri
remanded to month's custody
Malik appeared in court wearing a
white plastic hood over his head to replace the turban that his lawyer
said prison officials had ordered both men to remove.
Punjab
Police assures separatists living abroad of 'fair
trial'
Chandigarh: The Punjab Police Tuesday
assured fugitive extremists living abroad that they would be given a
fair trial according to the "law of the land" if they returned to
India.
Oct
31, 2000
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Air-India suspect appears in court without
turban -
'Insult' reflects treatment, lawyer says
VANCOUVER -- A historic criminal
case involving the 1985 Air-India bombing got off to a messy start
yesterday after one of the prime suspects was brought into court wearing
what looked like a white plastic shower cap pushed down on his head
instead of his turban. |
Ripu Daman
Singh Malik
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Ajaib Singh
Bagri
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What
the trial means ?
An end of sorts is in sight for many things connected with the bombing
of an Air-India plane in 1985. Finally, after 15 years, three people have
been arrested in British Columbia and two of them charged with killing 329
people on the flight between Montreal and New Delhi.
B.C. continues to fund schools run by suspect
VICTORIA -- British Columbia will
continue to fund two private Sikh schools in
Vancouver and Surrey started by alleged terrorist Ripudaman Singh Malik.
Education Ministry officials are to meet with the school's
superintendent today for informal discussions about the operation of the
two institutions after Mr. Malik's arrest, a department spokeswoman said
yesterday.
Canadian
Sikhs relieved at arrests
Vancouver: The
Canadian police on Saturday downplayed the prospect of
reprisals following the arrest of two suspected Sikh religious
extremists for the 1985 bombing of an Air-India airliner that
killed 329 people.
Oct
30, 2000.
Air-India Charges Struggles for
Sikh homeland spilled into Lower
Mainland - Arrests come after years of violence in
B.C. between moderates and extremists.
VANCOUVER -- The seeds of the
Air-India terrorist bombing that claimed 331 lives were planted in the
Lower Mainland of British Columbia in the early 1980s as militant Sikhs became caught up in the fight for a Sikh homeland known as Khalistan to be carved out of
the Indian region of Punjab.
Third man arrested in Air-India
bombing
A third suspect was arrested in connection with the 1985
Air-India bombing last night, but won't be charged until he makes
his first court appearance...
Police arrest third Air-India suspect
-'11th-hour
man' may have fled
VANCOUVER -- The Mounties have
arrested a third suspect in the bombing of an Air-India jet, the RCMP said
late last night, and police are scrambling to pull together enough
evidence to arrest at least three more Sikh
extremists in the mass murder of 329 passengers and crew in the 1985
explosion.
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Hardial Singh
Johal |
Battling the bigots on-line
- A Canadian Web site
attacking religious
intolerance is a surprising hit.
KINGSTON, ONT. -- Until last
February, ReligiousTolerance.org was ranked the top religious site on the
Internet by HitBox.com. Then along came SikhNet.
Oct
28, 2000
Militants vowed revenge for temple
attack
It was at a Sikh temple in southeast Calgary, in the summer of
1984, that about 20 Canadian Sikhs first heard the cry for Air-
India planes to "fall from the sky." - Full
story
A disciple of alleged mastermind of
bombing
Ajaib Singh Bagri was a mill worker in Kamloops, B.C., when he
embraced the cause of Sikh separatism and joined the violent
separatist group Babbar Khalsa... Full
story
A key player in Sikh separatism
- Millionaire oversaw community institutions
after the bombing.
Ripudaman Singh Malik has long been identified as the financier
of militant Sikh separatist groups in Canada and has publicly
acknowledged paying money to the families of some of the prime
suspects in the Air-India bombing.
A mass murder made in
Canada
The aircraft came down into the cold ocean in a shower of burning
debris, the wings and tail having broken off to fall separately from
the main fuselage, itself containing 329 people, 60 of them children
under the age of 9.
Terrorists' supermarket
- Canada has everything for the discriminating
'freedom fighter'
Air-India
suspects charged -
RCMP arrest two after 15-year
probe
of jetliner bombing that killed 329
VANCOUVER
-- In the biggest and most expensive murder investigation in
Canadian history, the RCMP arrested two men yesterday in the 1985
bombing of Air-India Flight 182 that killed 329 passengers and crew.
Arrests
in Air-India bombing case a setback for Sikh separatists:
Police
Chandigarh: The arrest of two activists of
a Sikh extremist group by Canadian authorities for the mid-air
explosion on an Air-India jet in 1985 has been welcomed by Punjab
Police as a major setback to the separatist movement.
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