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The only man convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing can skip future counselling sessions even though a psychologist says he has “made minimal gains in therapy,” the Parole Board of Canada has ruled.

Inderjit Singh Reyat has been convicted twice of manslaughter in the deaths of 331 people, as well as for perjury after he lied at the terrorism trial of his two co-accused, who were later acquitted.

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When Reyat was released from prison in 2016 after serving two-thirds of his third sentence in the perjury case, he was put on special conditions, including that he attend counselling “to address contributing factors to your offending.”

But that condition was removed by parole board member Catherine Dawson on April 29 because Reyat was no longer benefiting from the counselling.

The psychologist who worked with Reyat said in a report that he had “made minimal gains in therapy.”

“You have presented as guarded, denied your involvement in the Air India tragedy, and have denied that you are a person of strong political beliefs,” Dawson said in her decision, released Monday.