Ripudaman Singh Malik who accused in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight was in 2005 acquitted due to lack of evidence

Tanner Fox is one of two hitmen who killed Ripudaman Singh Malik in Canada in 2022. It is still unknown who hired them.

A contract killer in Canada was convicted on Tuesday (local time) of murdering an acquitted suspect in 1985 Air India bombings that had claimed 331 lives.

A contract killer, Tanner Fox, was sentenced to life in Canada for the murder of Ripudaman Singh Malik, previously cleared of the 1985 Air India bombings. Fox and his associate, Jose Lopez, admitted to the killing but did not disclose the employer's identity.

Another bomb was meant to be planted in an Air India flight scheduled to take off from Japan, but it exploded at Tokyo’s Narita airport, killing two baggage handlers

One of the two hitmen who killed a person accused in the 1985 Air India bombing was sentenced to life imprisonment in Canada on Tuesday, reported BBC. Tanner Fox, 24, was sentenced by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge. He will not get parole for 20 years.

One of the admitted hitmen who killed former Air India bombing suspect Ripudaman Singh Malik is set to be sentenced for his part in the murder today in a New Westminster, B.C., courtroom.

Tanner Fox, 24, received his sentence on Tuesday from a British Columbia Supreme Court judge. Both him and his accomplice, Jose Lopez, pleaded guilty last October to the second-degree murder of Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik in 2022. Lopez is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.