Killer of Ripudaman Malik Who Was Acquitted In 1985 Air India Bombings Gets Life Term

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A hitman who was one of two people who shot and killed Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik- acquitted in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight- has been jailed for life in Canada without the possibility of parole for 20 years.

Tanner Fox was sentenced by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge after he pleaded guilty in October to the second-degree murder of Ripudaman Singh Malik in 2022.

During the sentencing, Ripudaman Singh Malik’s family asked Tanner Fox to reveal who hired him to carry out the murder. “We plead with you to reveal the names of the people who hired you,” said Ripudaman Singh Malik’s daughter-in-law Sundeep Kaur Dhaliwal inside the New Westminster courtroom.

Ripudaman Singh Malik was shot several times in his car outside his family business in Surrey in British Columbia in 2022. Police found a burnt-out vehicle nearby. The killing happened more than a decade after Ripudaman Singh Malik was acquitted in Canada’s deadliest terrorist attack in history.

On 23 June 1985, Air India flight 182 from Canada to India blew up off the Irish coast, killing all 329 people on board. Most of them were Canadian citizens visiting relatives in India. Around the same time, a second bomb exploded prematurely in Japan, killing two baggage handlers.

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