Vancouver, Canada (KP) - Inderjit Singh Reyat, wrongly accused in the 1985 Air India bombing case will be up for a parole hearing on March 3rd 2006.
The National Parole Board announced that this hearing will determine whether Mr. Singh should be released after serving two-thirds of his five-year prison sentence. Most Canadian prisoners are almost always granted full parole after serving two-thirds of their sentences.
Under normal circumstances, Inderjit Singh would have been released in June however, a request was made to the parole board by Correctional Service Canada to have him serve his entire sentence.
The other defendents in the the Kanishka case, Ripudiman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were found not guilty of all eight criminal charges connected to a pair of blasts directed at Air India airliners in 1985 that killed 331 people. Sikh organizations blame the Indian Government for planting the bombs in order to discredit the Sikh independence movement.
In the book Soft Target, written by respected Canadian journalists Zuhair Kashmeri of the Toronto Globe and Mail and Brian McAndrew of the Toronto Star, clearly established that the lndian government is responsible for the bombings. The book quotes an investigator from the Canadian Security Investigative Service (CSIS) who said, ``If you really want to clear up the incidents quickly, take vans down to the Indian High Commission and the consulates in Toronto and Vancouver, load up everybody and take them down for questioning. We know it and they know it that they are involved.''
