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Kanishka bomber appeals nine-year sentence

Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted in the 1985 bombing that killed 329 people on Air India Flight 182 from Montreal to Delhi.

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Inderjit Singh Reyat, the lone man convicted in the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing case, has filed a petition challenging his nine-year sentence in Canada's worst terror attack.

Reyat's lawyer Ian Donaldson claims British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Mark McEwan made several mistakes, including misdirecting the jury, at Reyat's perjury trial last year, according to media reports.

Reyat was the only person convicted in the 1985 bombing that killed 329 people on Air India Flight 182 from Montreal to Delhi.

A second bomb exploded prematurely the same day, killing two baggage handlers at Tokyo's Narita Airport.

He was later convicted of lying under oath at another trial of two men acquitted in planning the bombs and was handed nine years in prison.

Reyat's decision shows a "complete lack of remorse" for his role in the deadly attack, according to Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer Gary Bass.

The jury found that Reyat lied when called as a Crown witness in the 2003 trial of two others accused, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri in the Air India bombing, considered the biggest mass murder in Canadian history.

Both men were later acquitted.

Reyat had earlier agreed to testify truthfully in exchange for a manslaughter guilty plea over the deadly blast and a five-year jail term.

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