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Convicted Air India and Inderjit Singh Reyat

Inderjit Singh Reyat: The nine-year prison sentence for lying at the trial of two men accused in the terrorist plot is appropriate, the panel of three judges announced Thursday. , according to CBC. Reyat hid the extent of his knowledge of the conspiracy alleged to be behind the mass murder, the judges noted. Convicted Air India bomb maker Inderjit Singh Reyat will serve the longest perjury sentence in Canadian history, after B.C. Court of Appeal rejected a plea to reduce the term. "The gravity of the trial at which Mr. Reyat perjured himself is without comparison," Justice Mary Saunders wrote on behalf of the panel. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.