Canadian apex court clears way to recoup Kanishka accused’s legal bill
April 22nd, 2011 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANIOntario (Canada), Apr. 22 (ANI): The Supreme Court of Canada has cleared the way for the British Columbia government to wrest 5.2 million dollars in legal fees from a man acquitted of criminal charges in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight.
The court gave the province a green light to unseal and examine documents it seized from Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Vancouver businessman, in 2009, the Globe and Mail reports.
The material was seized in connection with a lawsuit the province launched alleging that the Malik family systematically misrepresented its considerable wealth to defraud the public of special legal funding made available to Malik.
Thursday’s decision reversed an earlier B.C. Court of Appeal decision that had gone in Mr. Malik’s favour.
The Air India plane exploded off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985, killing all 329 people on board. (ANI)
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