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...ACQUITTED. RIPUDAMAN SINGH MALIK, 58, and AJAIB SINGH BAGRI, 55, of the 1985 Air India plane bombing that killed 329 people, most of them Canadian Hindus; by a Supreme Court judge in Vancouver. The terrorist bombing, of a New Delhi-bound flight from Toronto, was believed to have been carried out by Sikh separatists in retaliation for the Indian Army's 1984 storming of a Sikh holy shrine in Amritsar. Prosecutors were hampered by a lack of physical evidence and credible living witnesses. Only one person has ever been convicted in the bombing...
ARRESTED. RIPUDAMAN SINGH MALIK and AJAIB SINGH BAGRI, 53 and 51, suspected terrorists; in Canada, outside Vancouver, B.C. The two men are accused of plotting two bombings that occurred on June 23, 1985. One exploded on Air India Flight 182, en route from Montreal to New Delhi, killing all 329 people onboard in what is believed to be the deadliest terrorist bombing of an airplane in history; the other was apparently intended to crash an Air India plane leaving Tokyo, but it went off prematurely and killed two baggage handlers...
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