(Ripudaman Singh Malik (centre) leaves B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, B.C. with his supporters after he was found not guilty in the bombing of an Air India flight 182 in 1985, Wednesday March 16, 2005. Malikl won’t be getting back $9.2 million in legal fees. Malik had admitted in a B.C. Supreme Court case that it would be difficult for him to convince the government to cover his legal bills. PHOTO BY RICHARD LAM /The Canadian Press)

 

The one-time supporter of the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement, was killed outside his business on Thursday morning in Surrey.

by Kim Bolan

The Star Phoenix

July 14, 2022

A man acquitted in the 1985 Air India terrorism case was shot to death outside his Surrey business Thursday morning.

Ripudaman Singh Malik, a one-time supporter of the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement, was killed just before 9:30 a.m. in the 8200-block of 128th Street.

In March 2005, Malik and his Babbar Khalsa associate Ajaib Singh Bagri, were acquitted by a B.C. Supreme Court judge of murder and conspiracy charges in Canada’s deadliest terrorism attack.

Air India — then the country’s national airline — was bombed to retaliate against the Indian government for its attack on Amritsar’s Golden Temple a year earlier that left hundreds of Sikh pilgrims dead.

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