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A B.C. man acquitted in the 1985 Air India bombing has finally been allowed to travel to India after decades of being on a no-fly list.

Ripudaman Singh Malik’s visit to his birth country has been featured in the Indian media in recent days.

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In March 2005, Malik, along with Ajaib Singh Bagri, was acquitted in the June 23, 1985 terrorism attack against India’s national airline that left 331 dead.

Two bomb-laden suitcases were checked in at Vancouver Airport and tagged for Air India flights heading in opposite directions around the globe. One exploded at Tokyo’s Narita Airport killing two baggage handlers. The second blew up aboard Air India Flight 182, killing all 329 aboard.

Evidence at Malik and Bagri’s trial pointed to a conspiracy by B.C. Sikh separatists to retaliate for the Indian government’s attack in June 1984 on the Golden Temple, Sikhism’s holiest shrine.

The only man convicted in the bombing plot, Inderjit Singh Reyat, was later found guilty of perjury for lying at Malik and Bagri’s trial.