Procedural lapses and a key witness committing perjury led to Ripudaman Singh Malik being acquitted for his alleged role in the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing, also known as the Kanishka bombing

A contract killer in Canada was convicted on Tuesday (local time) of murdering an acquitted suspect in 1985 Air India bombings that had claimed 331 lives.

A contract killer, Tanner Fox, was sentenced to life in Canada for the murder of Ripudaman Singh Malik, previously cleared of the 1985 Air India bombings. Fox and his associate, Jose Lopez, admitted to the killing but did not disclose the employer's identity.

Another bomb was meant to be planted in an Air India flight scheduled to take off from Japan, but it exploded at Tokyo’s Narita airport, killing two baggage handlers

One of the two hitmen who killed a person accused in the 1985 Air India bombing was sentenced to life imprisonment in Canada on Tuesday, reported BBC. Tanner Fox, 24, was sentenced by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge. He will not get parole for 20 years.

One of the hit men who murdered former Air India bombing suspect Ripudaman Singh Malik has received a mandatory life sentence, without the possibility of parole for 20 years.

Tanner Fox, 24, received his sentence on Tuesday from a British Columbia Supreme Court judge. Both him and his accomplice, Jose Lopez, pleaded guilty last October to the second-degree murder of Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik in 2022. Lopez is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.