Two people found guilty in the murder of Ripudaman Singh, a suspect in the Air India blast case, 331 people died in the blast.

Ottawa: Two accused who murdered Ripudaman Singh Malik, a suspect in the Air India Kanishka bomb blast case, have confessed to their crime. Two accused in the murder of Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was acquitted in the Air India Kanishka terror bomb blast case, have pleaded guilty to murder in a Canadian court. This information has been given in the media reports.

Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez pleaded guilty in British Columbia (B.C.) Supreme Court on Monday, on the eve of trial in the murder of 75-year-old Malik.

Acquitted of conspiracy to commit mass murder

Ripudaman Singh Malik was shot dead in Surrey, British Columbia on July 14, 2022. Malik and co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted in 2005 of charges of mass murder and conspiracy related to the two bomb blasts in 1985. 331 people were killed in these blasts.

Fox and Lopez pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in New Westminster court on Monday, Global News reported. The court heard an agreed statement of facts which revealed that the two men were contracted to murder Malik, the report said.

I was lured with money

“We find from the consensual facts that there was a financial inducement to commit this crime,” Lopez’s lawyer, Gloria Ng, told Global News.

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The 1985 Air India bombing is one of the worst terrorist attacks in Canadian and airline history. On June 23, 1985, Air India flight 182 was carrying 329 people, including 268 Canadian citizens and 24 Indian citizens.

The bomb was kept in the suitcase

The plane took off from Toronto and stopped in Montreal, from where it proceeded to London and then to its final destination Mumbai. The plane was flying 31,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean when a bomb in a suitcase exploded, killing everyone on board.

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(with agency input)