Ripudaman Singh Malika Canadian of Sikh origin who was accused and acquitted of the worst terrorist attack in the history of Canadathe attack on a plane Air India in 1985 in which 329 people died, he was assassinated this Thursday, according to his family.
Malik, 75 years old, was shot in the Canadian town of Surreyin the west of countryaround 9:30 local time (15:30 GMT) according to what the relatives of the deceased told the local media.
The Canadian Mounted Police confirmed in a statement that an individual died as a result of injuries received in a shooting in Surreyalthough he did not identify the deceased.
Police sources also described the killing as intentional and said that a vehicle, which had apparently been used in the attack, was later located on fire.
The Canadian police and secret services had linked Malik, who emigrated to Canada in 1972, with the Babbar Khalsa, a Sikh terrorist group whose goal is the creation of Khalistan, a Sikh state in the northwest of the India.
The Sikh religion originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region, currently under the control of India and Pakistan, and is considered the fifth largest religion in the world in number of practitioners, with around 25 million adherents. Sikhs are considered an ethnic group in countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom.
the terrorist attack
Ripudaman Singh Malik y Ajaib Singh Bagri They were accused by the Canadian Police of planting a bomb on flight 182 of Air Indiawhich connected Montreal and New Delhi with a stopover in London.
The plane exploded over the Atlantic, off the coast of Ireland, on June 23, 1985, killing all 329 occupants, including 86 children, mostly Canadians of Indian origin.
In addition, another bomb destined for another aircraft Air India and hidden in a suitcase, it exploded the same day at the Tokyo airport, killing two Japanese workers.
Authorities believe the attacks were retaliation for the Indian Army’s 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amristar, an attack that killed hundreds of Sikhs.
In 2005, a Canadian court acquitted Malik and Bagri of all charges on the grounds that the witnesses presented by the prosecution were not credible.
In 2003, Inderjit Singh Reyat He was sentenced to 24 years in prison for being the author of the bomb used once morest Flight 182.
In 2010, a jury found Reyat guilty of perjury following it was shown that he lied at least 20 times during Malik and Bagri’s trial to protect the two defendants. (EFE)
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