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  • Kanishka culprit gets 9 years in prison

    Published on January 8, 2011

    Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man convicted in the 1985 Air India Flight Kaniska bombing that killed 329 people, was sentenced in Vancouver to nine years in prison for perjury during the trial of two men acquitted in the attacks.

    In handing down his sentence, British Columbia Superior Court judge Mark McEwan observed Reyat was nothing like a remorseful man.

    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said quoting Justice McEwan said that the effect of Reyat’s perjury on the outcome of the trial is incalculable.

    Reyat will receive 17 months credit for time spent in pre-trial custody, reducing his sentence to seven years and seven months.

    The two men had been charged with conspiring to blow up Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985, and of causing another explosion on the same day that killed two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Tokyo.

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