Kanishka Bombing Accused Had Lied 27 Times

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CANADA (Gaea Times.com) - Inderjit Singh Reyat - a Sikh immigrant in Canada convicted for 1985 bombing of the Air India flight 182 has been found guilty of lying 27 times under oath against his alleged co conspirators in the plot, Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik. Also known as Kanishka bombing, the Air India flight had crashed into the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Ireland when a bomb placed in a suitcase in the plane went off. All the passengers in the plane were killed and this incident is regarded as one of the most deadliest terrorist attacks on plane in the world and was carried out by the Canadian Sikh extremists. The 58 year old Inderjit Singh Reyat was the sole person convicted in the bombing and he had pleaded guilty by accepting his role in the making of the bomb that had killed 392 people on flight.

A Canadian court in Vancouver found him guilty of perjury for which the maximum sentence is 14 years and there is a fair chance that Inderjit Singh Malik would be sentenced to that term on November 17. He was ordered in custody after being found guilty and had been charged with perjury in 2006. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the British Columbia Supreme Court jury had found him guilty of perjury during the trial of Kanishka bombing.

The lawyer of Inderjit Singh Reyat, Ian Donaldson has argued for his client to remain out of custody as neither he nor the crown has found any case of a Canadian convicted of perjury being detained pending sentence. Ian Donaldson, the lawyer of the accused in Kanishka bombing also said that his client had compiled impeccably with his bail conditions without any breach for two years.