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2017-02-16 Great White North

Canada frees Sikh Air India bomber convicted in 1985 killing of 331 people

The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people is now free, Canada's parole board said Wednesday.

Inderjit Singh Reyat had been ordered to live at a halfway house following his release from prison one year ago, after serving two decades behind bars. That condition has now been lifted and Reyat may return to a normal life, including 'living in a private residence,' parole board spokesman Patrick Storey told AFP in an email.

The Sikh immigrant from India was convicted of making bombs that were stuffed into luggage and planted on two planes leaving Vancouver, and of lying in court to cover for his co-accused.

One bomb tore apart Air India Flight 182 as it neared the coast of Ireland, killing all 331 people aboard, including 268 Canadian citizens, 27 Britons and 24 Indians. The incident was the largest mass murder in Canadian history.

The second exploded at Japan's Narita airport, killing two baggage handlers as they transferred cargo to another Air India plane.

The blasts followed a crackdown on Sikhs fighting for an independent homeland, and those behind it were allegedly seeking revenge for the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by Indian troops.

Reyat was working as a mechanic in westernmost Canada and purchased the dynamite, batteries and detonators used to construct the bombs.

Two alleged co-conspirators were acquitted due to a lack of evidence and, according to prosecutors, because of Reyat's perjury.

Storey said Reyat's parole officer has assessed those with whom he will live 'to ensure they will not have a negative influence on him.' Conditions of his release from prison also still apply, including having no contact with the victims' families nor with extremists.

Reyat must also shun all political activities and take counseling for violent tendencies, a lack of empathy and exaggerated beliefs.

Posted by Pappy 2017-02-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 How in the world can somebody be released from prison after committing mass murder?

Posted by 3dc 2017-02-16 00:32|| 2017-02-16 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 It's Canada...
Schizophrenic Canadian who beheaded bus passenger walks free, won’t be monitored

Posted by Skidmark 2017-02-16 03:42|| 2017-02-16 03:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Another part of Western Civ that's given up on justice.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-16 07:54|| 2017-02-16 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 "The court declared the murdered innocents 'better now'"

F*cking Canuck "justice"

Posted by Frank G 2017-02-16 08:55|| 2017-02-16 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 HEY!!!!! Why so harsh, people? He said he was sorry didn't he? No, wait. He didn't.

I'm sure the computer chip that was implanted in his buttocks will allow the Mounties to track him. Unless it was something else implanted in his buttocks during the 20 years in prison. No, let's not go there.

In any case, the whole episode, and I remember it well, just left me Sikh.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2017-02-16 17:55|| 2017-02-16 17:55|| Front Page Top

#6 We have similar isolated instances of Judicial Insanity, but it seems ingrained upstairs, CS

Posted by Frank G 2017-02-16 21:05|| 2017-02-16 21:05|| Front Page Top

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