1985 Air India bombing: Hitman given life sentence in Canada for murder of suspect in 2022
The Hindu
Hitman sentenced to life for 1985 Air India bombings murder, accomplice due in court, motive remains unknown.
A hitman convicted in Canada of murdering an acquitted suspect in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people was sentenced on Tuesday (January 28, 2025) to life in prison.
Tanner Fox and his accomplice Jose Lopez pleaded guilty in October 2024 to the second-degree murder of Ripudaman Singh Malik.
While they confessed that they were paid to carry out the July 2022 shooting in a suburb of Vancouver in western Canada, they have not revealed who hired them. Lopez is due back in court on February 6.
Malik, along with his co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri, had been acquitted two decades ago of charges related to the 1985 bombing due to a lack of evidence.
The bombing of Air India Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland that killed all 329 passengers and crew had been the deadliest act of airborne terrorism prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
The Montreal-New Delhi Air India ‘Kanishka’ Flight 182 exploded 45 minutes before it was to have landed at London’s Heathrow Airport on June 23, 1985
It came as another bomb exploded at Japan's Narita airport, killing two workers who were loading baggage onto an Air India flight.
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