Ripudaman Singh Malik’s assassins plead guilty to second-degree murder in Canadian court
Ripudaman Singh Malik
The killers of Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik, a man acquitted of the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight, have pleaded guilty in a Canadian court.
Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez, the two hitmen, have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder from 2022. As per reports, the two men entered their pleas in Canada's British Columbia Supreme Court on the eve of their trial for first-degree murder.
Hitmen get into ferocious fight
According to a Vancouver Sun report, the two hitmen got into a ferocious fist fight in the courtroom.
The two men "punched and clawed at each other" for a couple of minutes before the sheriffs broke up the brawl. Pushing the brawling men to the ground, the officers put them in handcuffs before leading them away.
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According to the report, they are scheduled for sentencing on Oct 31. Their second degree guilty plea guarantees life sentences. However, it is not known how long they'll have to serve before being eligible for parole, reports Canadian public broadcaster CBC.
The two hitmen, according to the agreed statement of facts released on Monday (Oct 21) were hired to kill Malik. However, the evidence failed to establish who had hired them.
Who was Ripudaman Singh Malik?
Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Sikh businessman, was shot dead outside his family business in Surrey, British Columbia, on the morning of 14 July 2022.
Malik was one of the two men acquitted in 2005 of a devastating double bomb attack, one of Canada’s worst terrorist attacks.
On 23 June 1985, an Air India Flight 182 blew up off the Irish coast, killing all the 329 passengers onboard. Most of the passengers were Canadian citizens visiting relatives in India. Another bomb exploded prematurely in Japan, killing two baggage handlers.
The blasts were believed to have been carried out by Canada-based Sikhs in retaliation for the 1984 storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Malik and his co-accused, Ajaib Singh Bagrib, were acquitted of the mass murder and conspiracy charges over the plane bombings after a two-year trial.
Malik's family, in a statement, said that justice wouldn't be served "Until the parties responsible for hiring them and directing this assassination are brought to justice."
(With inputs from agencies)
