Sikh Terror Outfits
Two men plead guilty to murder of Air India bombing suspect Ripudaman Malik
Two men accused of killing Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Sikh man acquitted in the tragic 1985 Air India Kanishka terrorist bombing case, have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Canadian court, according to media reports. Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez entered the pleas in the British Columbia (BC) Supreme Court on Monday on the eve of their trial for the killing of 75-year-old Malik, who was shot several times outside his family business on the morning of July 14, 2022. Malik was shot dead in Surrey, British Columbia in 2022. He and co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted in 2005 of mass murder and conspiracy charges related to the two bombings in 1985 that killed 331 people. In the court in New Westminster on Monday, both Fox and Lopez pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree murder, the Global News reported. The court heard an agreed statement of facts that revealed the two men had been hired to kill Malik, the report added. "What we know from the agreed statemen
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Unwarranted, unsubstantiated: India dismisses lawsuit filed in US by Pannun
India on Thursday rejected as completely "unwarranted and unsubstantiated" a lawsuit filed in a US court against the Indian government and certain Indian officials by Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in an alleged foiled plot to assassinate him. Pannun, who heads the radical group Sikhs for Justice filed the civil lawsuit in a US federal district court in New York demanding damages for the alleged attempt to eliminate him on American soil last year. In November last year, US federal prosecutors charged Indian national Nikhil Gupta of working with an Indian government employee in the foiled plot to kill Pannun in New York. Replying to a question at a media briefing on the civil lawsuit filed by Pannun, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri described it as "unwarranted" and "unsubstantiated imputations". Pannun, wanted in India on terror charges, holds dual citizenship of the US and Canada. "As we've said earlier, these are completely unwarranted and unsubstantiated imputations. Now
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India, Canada to work against Sikh terror outfits, JeM
The two sides reaffirmed the shared resolve to combat terrorism and violent extremism in all their forms and manifestations
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