What happened after the Air India Kanishka aircraft bombing in 1985?

Chandigarh, July 15

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Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was the main accused in the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing and later acquitted, was shot dead outside his business office in Surrey near Vancouver today.

• 329 people were killed in the explosion of the Air India Flight 182 Kanishka on June 23, 1985 near the Irish coastline. The flight was operating on Montreal-London-Delhi-Mumbai route.
• Ripudaman Singh Malik was among the main suspects to have been a part of the bombing. He allegedly funded the act.
• Malik was acquitted of the charges of his involvement in the bombing in 2005. Another accused, Ajaib Singh Bagri, was also acquitted.
• The only person convicted was Inderjit Singh Reyat, a dual British-Canadian national, who was a member of the International Sikh Youth Federation.
• Malik visited India in December 2019 after his name was removed from the blacklist of 312 Sikhs living abroad in September 2019. 
• Malik praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare December 26 as Veer Baal Divas marking the martyrdom of the sons of Guru Gobind Singh in a letter written on January 17, earlier this year.