|
Kanishka bombing:
Convict completes sentence
WSN Network
TORONTO: Inderjit
Singh Reyat, the only person convicted for the 1985 Air India
bombing, completed his manslaughter sentence but was not released as
he is awaiting a fresh trial on perjury charge.
Reyat, 55, was
escorted from Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford to a Lower Mainland
jail on Saturday to await his perjury trial, which is now scheduled
in British Columbia Supreme Court for March 7. But Reyat is hoping
to be released on bail.
Roger Cutler, of the
attorney general's ministry, confirmed on Sunday that Reyat has
applied for bail and March 4 has been fixed to hear that
application.
"He was kept in a
federal institution while completing his manslaughter sentence which
came to end. And then he still has to deal with the perjury matter
and he is in custody while awaiting that," Cutler said.
"The (arrest)
warrant would have been issued way back then."
Families of the Air
India victims were contacted last month and told Reyat had agreed to
plead guilty to perjury for lying at the trial of two others accused
in the terrorism plot.
But Reyat appears to
be intending to stand trial on the allegations he lied repeatedly in
September 2003 when he was a Crown witness against Ajaib Singh Bagri
and Ripudaman Singh Malik. Both men were later acquitted.
Reyat's lawyer, Ian
Donaldson, was not available to comment.
13 February 2008
|
Read Also
