'I donated money to kill Indira Gandhi'

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'I donated money to Sikh militants to kill Indira Gandhi'

Reuters

Vancouver, (British Columbia), March 31: A prosecution witness in the Air India bombing trial said on Tuesday he donated money to a plot by Sikh militants to kill Indira Gandhi.

The man, whose name is shielded by court order, is a witness against Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of two Sikh militants charged with murder in connection with the 1985 attacks on an Air India plane that killed 331 people.

The defense is attacking the man's claim that he turned down Malik's request that he carry a "time bomb" in a suitcase to Vancouver airport because he did not support the use of violence in the movement for an independent Sikh homeland.

Under questioning by Malik's attorney, the man said he gave C$300 to help kill Gandhi at a 1984 meeting in Vancouver of Sikhs who wanted revenge for India's attack that year on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

"It was Indira Gandhi who ordered the attack. She should be killed, not other people," the man told the British Columbia Supreme Court in defending his motives.

Gandhi was assassinated by two bodyguards in October 1984. The Air India bombings are believed to have been in revenge for the attack on the Golden Temple.

The man said he donated the money at the request of Talwinder Singh Parmar, a founder of the Sikh militant group

Babbar Khalsa. Parmar, who has also been linked to the Air India bombings, was killed by police in India in 1992.

The witness has added an element of surprise to the trial that began in April 2003 because he did not contact police with his story about Malik until late last year after reading news reports about the case.

The man acknowledged he was aware that another witness had testified he had also turned down a request by Malik to carry a suitcase on to an Air India jet.

Police allege Sikh militants based in Vancouver used a time bomb in a suitcase to blow up Air India Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland, killing 329 people in history's deadliest bombing of a civilian airliner.

Another bomb intended to destroy a second Air India jet over the Pacific at the same time exploded prematurely on the ground, killing two Tokyo airport workers.

Malik and co-defendent Ajaib Singh Bagri have denied any involvement in the bombings.

[DhadiMania]

i thought the 2 assasins did on behalf of the panth n not 4 cash?????

[Sister]

Are the witnesses lying?

[S1ngh]

of course it's there job.. It's really easy to buy fake indian witness, u throw 1000 dollars and line of fake witness ppls will appear..

This is another step that hindia is trying to get international attention and wanna make bc sikhs look more guilty... It's all fake !

[Khalsa4ever]

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

I don't know what to believe...

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

[Mkhalsa]

actually there was a plan from here to anonymously kill her (which would have meant no riots) which required a lot of funding. unfortunately/fortunately it was ruined by our beloved shaheeds, and also caught by the cbi around the same time.. not sure exactly..