"I was supposed to be on the flight as well," he said.
"It just brings back all the horrible memories we'd had to go through for the last 37 years," said Khandelwal, whose family was living in Saskatoon when the bombings happened.
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"It's like a nightmare that never stops giving," he said about the many years it took for the trial to start, the missteps made by police during the investigation and an inquiry into Canada's worst mass murder.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man convicted in the bombings, testified for the Crown at Malik and Bagri's trial and was later convicted of perjury.ĭeepak Khandelwal of Oakville, Ont., was 17 when his sisters, 21-year-old Chandra and 19-year-old Manju, were killed when Flight 182 fell from the sky. The aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland, killing 329 passengers and crew.Ībout an hour later, a bomb destined for another Air India plane exploded prematurely at Tokyo's Narita Airport, where two baggage handlers died. Supreme Court heard during the trial that a suitcase bomb was loaded onto a plane at Vancouver's airport and then transferred in Toronto to Air India Flight 182.
Malik and his co-accused, Ajaib Singh Bagri, were found not guilty in March 2005 of murder and conspiracy in a pair of Air India bombings that killed 331 people on June 23, 1985.ī.C. "The investigation is in the early stages and police are still looking for the suspects and a second vehicle that may have been used as getaway vehicle." Police said a vehicle believed to be used in the shooting was found engulfed in fire a few blocks away. RCMP said in a news release that a man died in what appeared to be a targeted attack, but they did not name the victim. "But then I come here and find this," he said of yellow police tape that surrounded the scene where a tight-knit business community was in shock. You know, always coming in here, talking to us, standing around," he said adding many of Malik's vehicles were serviced at his business.Īsaf Gill, who owns a carpet business, said he had an appointment with Malik about a half-hour before he was killed. "Someone we know has passed away to violence," Basra said. Sarj Basra, owner of the Auto Shine Car Wash and Detail, wasn't at work when the shooting happened but said it's upsetting and scary that something like that would happen in their neighbourhood. "The media and RCMP never seemed to accept the court's decision and I pray today's tragedy is not related." "The media will always refer to him as someone charged with the Air India bombing, Malik said. Jaspreet Malik confirmed the death in a statement on social media, saying his father came to Canada in 1972 and was committed to his community and family, including his wife, five children and eight grandchildren.
The man said he knew Malik as a customer at the car wash and because he had a business nearby. Police arrived in about 10 to 15 minutes, he said, and an ambulance took longer. He was alive," said the man, who didn't want to be named because of safety concerns. And I just took him out of his red Tesla. Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of two men acquitted in the 1985 Air India terrorist bombing, has been killed in a targeted shooting in Surrey, B.C.Īn employee who works at a nearby car wash said he heard shots on Thursday morning and ran outside to find Malik unconscious in his car.
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