Man Who Aided Airline Bombing Gets 5 Years
A man who acquired the materials for a bomb that killed 329 people aboard an Air India flight in 1985 pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Vancouver, Canada, and was sentenced to five years in prison. Inderjit Singh Reyat, 51, has been held since 1988. Two others face first-degree murder and conspiracy charges.
Air India Flight 182 from Montreal to New Delhi exploded over the Atlantic Ocean on June 23, 1985. Investigators suspect that Sikh militants wanted revenge for India’s 1984 raid on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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