Reyat's 10-year prison sentence for another bombing expires on Friday. Reyat will be charged prior to his release from prison,'' prosecution spokesman Geoff Gaul said Monday. Two baggage handlers were killed. An hour after that explosion, another bomb brought down an Air India airliner, Flight 182, from Montreal to New Delhi. All 329 people on board, most of them Canadians, were killed.
Police believe both bombs originated in British Columbia, Canada.
They blame militant Sikh separatists targeting India's national airline, since the bomb at the Tokyo airport was left in luggage destined for a second Air India plane. Reyat was convicted of manslaughter in the Tokyo bombing and was sentenced to a Vancouver-area prison. British extradition laws wouldn't allow fresh charges to be filed against Reyat in the Air India bombing without British permission. On Monday, the British Home Office said it had given the go-ahead. Reyat was named as a co-conspirator in charges filed last October against Sikh cleric Ajaib Singh Bagri and millionaire businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik.