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Air India bombing suspects acquitted

Ripudaman Singh Malik

A judge in Vancouver acquitted two Canadian Sikhs on March 16 of engineering a plan to put bombs on Air India flights 20 years ago, leaving unanswered who was responsible for Canada's worst mass killing and the largest act of air terrorism before Sept. 11, 2001.

One bomb brought down an Air India Boeing 747, killing all 329 aboard as it neared the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985. The second killed two baggage handlers and injured four others at Narita airport near Tokyo an hour earlier. In both cases, the bags were loaded onto flights out of Canada that connected to Air India flights.

Ajaib Singh Bagri

Ending a four-year case, the judge found that the assortment of former girlfriends, paid informers and disaffected business partners central to the prosecution were not credible enough to convict millionaire Vancouver businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik and Sikh activist Ajaib Singh Bagri of murder.

Prosecutors asserted that angry Sikhs in British Columbia planted the bombs to retaliate against the Indian government's attack on a Sikh temple in Punjab in 1984.

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