The charges were filed just days before Reyat, who has both British and Canadian citizenship, was due to be freed after serving a 10-year sentence for the manslaughter in the deaths of two baggage handlers in the other bombing. On Monday, the British government gave the go-ahead for the new charges. The blast killed the two baggage handlers. An hour later, another bomb brought down Air India Flight 182, from Montreal to New Delhi, off the Irish coast. All 329 people on board, most of them Canadians, were killed.
Police believe both bombs originated in British Columbia.
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. The Air-India explosion is the worst mass murder in Canadian history and will be the most complex case in Canadian legal history. The investigation spanned 16 years and three continents. Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved.