Air India bomb maker asks Supreme Court of Canada to review perjury conviction

THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Air India bomb maker Inderjit Singh Reyat is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a perjury conviction related to his testimony at the trial for two men acquitted in the case.

Reyat’s lawyer has filed a notice with the country’s highest court asking for leave to appeal his conviction, which was upheld by the B.C. Court of Appeal earlier this year.

Reyat was convicted of lying at the 2003 trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were ultimately acquitted on charges connected to the 1985 bombing that killed 329 people.

Reyat, who earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the case, was sentenced to nine years for his perjury conviction — believed to be the longest perjury sentence in Canadian history.

The notice to the Supreme Court of Canada argues the trial judge made a mistake in his instructions to the jury.

It’s an argument the B.C. Appeal Court unanimously rejected earlier this year, when a three-judge panel upheld Reyat’s conviction and sentence.

16:18ET 15-10-12

ed says:

October 15, 2012 at 1:46 pm

are you kidding – ytou know what happened , you know whaT YOU DID, YOU GOT AWAY WITH MURDER – HOW CAN YOU BE SO BOLD AND FURHTER TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SITUATION
this is the trouble with Sikhism – people like this are not held accountable – as well as the banker and khalsa school owner

RIDICULOUS YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER IN CANADA