Air India bomb-maker faces perjury trial

Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted in connection with the 1985 Air India bombing, is scheduled to go trial next May on perjury charges. Lawyers who appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on Friday to set the date will return next month to confirm it before Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm.
Reyat was charged with perjury after testifying in the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri. They were acquitted in March 2005 of murder and conspiracy charges in the bombing of Air India Flight 182, which plunged into the sea off the coast of Ireland on June, 23, 1985, killing 329 people. The indictment filed against Reyat in B.C. Supreme Court lists 27 times where he allegedly misled the court during his testimony in September 2003.
Reyat is serving a five-year sentence at Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., on that charge.
22/09/06 CBC British Columbia

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