The lawyer for Inderjit Singh Reyaturgeda B.C. Supreme Court judge to throw out charges against the Duncan man for lack of evidence.
Reyat 37 is charged with five explosives offences and two counts of manslaughter in a 1985 bombing at Tokyo’s Narita airport that killed two baggage handlers.
“The Crown has led no evidence that the accused made the Nanta bomb” Mark Hilford told justice Raymond Paris “If you add up everything the Crown has it’s nine suspicions.
“If you have nine suspicions or a thousand suspicions it adds up to suspicions.”
Hilford argued that dynamite found at Reyat’s home was of a type different from the dynamite residue found at the bomb site.
“The only evidence led is that he has the wrong dynamite” he said. Prosecutor Jim Jardine agreed there is no direct evidence but said: “You have a circumstantial web which ensnares Mr. Reyat. The Narita blast came within hours of an explosion aboard an Air India jet off the Irish coast. That blast killed all 327 aboard.
(It is noteworthy to mention here hat two Canadian journalists found substantial evidence to directly implicate the Indian Govt for these acts of terrorism-Editor)
Article extracted from this publication >> March 29, 1991
