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Kanishka case: Accused to face trial on perjury charges

Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted in the Kanishka bombing case, will face trial on perjury charges in May next year.

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TORONTO: Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted in the Kanishka bombing case, will face trial on perjury charges in May next year.
 
Reyat was charged with perjury after his testimony in the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were acquitted of murder and conspiracy charges in the bombing of Air-India Flight 182 in 1985 that killed 329 people.
 
The case filed against Reyat in the BC Supreme Court lists 27 times where he allegedly misled the court during testimony in September 2003.
 
He is serving a five-year sentence for manslaughter as part of a plea agreement for the deaths of those killed after the bomb exploded.
 
Lawyers appeared in BC Supreme Court in Vancouver on Friday to set the date will return next month to confirm it before Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm.
 
Reyat could spend a maximum of 14 years in prison if convicted of perjury. Before that, he served 10 years for a blast at Tokyo's Narita airport that took place the same day as Flight 182.
 
Relatives of the Air-India bombing victims will gather in Ottawa next week for an emotional recounting before a judicial inquiry of how their lives were altered by the terrorist attack that killed 331 people.
 
After lobbying for 20 years for a public inquiry, the families will get to tell their stories before commissioner John Major, the retired Supreme Court justice.
 
"It is the beginning of yet another journey for us, the families," said Lata Pada who lost her teenage daughters and husband.
 
"We go there with a great deal of hope," she said. But it is also painful and difficult to talk about the personal despair and frustration at the lack of convictions in Canada's worst act of terrorism, Pada added.
 
Major said Thursday that he expects the opening days of testimony to be powerful, but difficult.
 
"We hope this inquiry makes Canada a better place, not just for Indo-Canadians, but for all Canadians," he said.
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