Man acquitted of bombing 1985 Air India flight shot dead in Canada

Sikh activist Ripudaman Singh Malik (centre) smiles as he leaves a Vancouver court March 16, 2005, after being found not guilty in the 1985 Reuters

A man acquitted over the bombing of a 1985 Air flow India flight continues to be killed in a thought targeted shooting in Canada, police state.

Ripudaman Singh Malik was chance dead in his car in Surrey, British Columbia, and law enforcement found a burnt-out vehicle nearby.

Mister Malik denied participation in the terror strike that killed 329 people.

He has been acquitted in 2006 but police were accused of having bungled the investigation.

The particular bombings – broadly believed to have been carried out by Canadian-based Sikhs in retaliation to get India’s deadly 1984 storming of the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine in the Sikh religion – remain Canada’s deadliest terror attack.

Following a two-year trial, Mr Malik, a Sikh businessman and co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted of holocaust and conspiracy fees related to the two bombings.

Canadian police possess said they are still working to determine the particular motive behind the particular targeted killing associated with Mr Malik.

Air India flight 182 from Canada to India blew upward off the Irish coastline, killing all 329 people on board – most of them Canadian citizens visiting relatives in India – on 23 June 1985.

About the same time, a second bomb exploded prematurely in Japan, killing 2 baggage handlers.

Mister Bagri and Mr Malik were offender of planting the bombs on board the airplane.

But the prosecution case turned on the dependability of key prosecution witnesses, who stated the accused acquired privately confessed to involvement in the bombing.