Kanishka Hearings Begin Again
Ankit Gupta - All Headline News Staff Writer Toronto, Canada (AHN) - After almost 21 years, in the worst terror attack on its soil, Canada launched a fresh round of judicial inquiry into the tragedy which killed all 331 people aboard the Air India flight. Earlier a court had acquitted the accused two Sikh separatists of charges in the case. After consultation with the 80 family members who lost their loved ones, the Retired Supreme Court Judge John Major, who heads the inquiry, laid out a timetable and other mechanics for the probe. The family members hope that finally justice shall see the light of the day and will help to ease their pain. The 8o family members present in Ottawa, had their demands met, when Canadian authorities announced a judicial probe into the crash of the Montreal-London flight's over the Atlantic Ocean. The judicial inquiry announced by the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on May 1, comes in wake of the acquittal of the two accused -Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri - in March last year of all charges related to the bombings after a 19 months of trial. The first witnesses are expected to testify in September. However, the retired judge will not have any power over the last year's verdict, he will although investigate the widely publicized war between the Canadian police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, who had hampered the initial investigation, Press Trus |
