Sepia Mutiny earlier reported on the trial of the accused in the AI 182 bombing. Well, this trial north of the border is just getting whackier & whackier – TheStar.com – Defence in Air India trial calls last witness.
VANCOUVER — The defence in the Air India case called its final witness today, ending another segment of the lengthy trial that included insults and angry outbursts, expletives, an admitted drug dealer and witnesses with shaky credibility.
An interesting cast of characters includes a drug dealer with that oh-so-Punjabi nickname – Mindy
Raminder Singh (Mindy) Bhandher, 26, was testifying on behalf of accused Air India bomber Ripudaman Singh Malik, who Bhandher said he regarded as a generous father figure. But during his testimony, Bhandher also acknowledged a lengthy history of drug dealing, smuggling and fraud.
A peace leader who knows how to deliver a verbal smackdown –
When he did testify — describing himself as a peaceful, devout Sikh leader — he shouted expletives at a Crown prosecutor who alleged he knew about the bombing plot and selectively warned friends to fly another day. “Bullshit!” Daljit Singh Sandhu yelled from the witness stand.
And even a F911 angle –
The defence’s case even had a connection — however tenuous — to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore and the popular movie Fahrenheit 911. Retired FBI agent Jack Cloonan, a commentator on U.S. news shows who makes an appearance in Moore’s latest film, was called as a witness for Bagri. Cloonan criticized another FBI agent who testified for the Crown. … The Crown accused him of weighing in on a case he knew nothing about.
This must be their OJ case but with desi’s & jumbo jets instead of ex-footballers & White Bronco’s…
I feel that what really happened on that tragic day would always be a mystry for us. That horrific event sure had some irreversible effects especially on the people who lost their family and friends and left a pall of gloom looming everywhere.Life definatly is unfair and we might in our angry moments blame God of being an underachiver but wat we fail to understand is the wisdom behind his motives which is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals like us. So wat i can say is that there are a hundred possibilities of who really is a criminal or wether the canadian police tampered with the evidence or not,or wether bagri or mailk have been let off scot free contrary to the popular opinion… But a dishonest and a malacious person wil never find peace in his lifetime as his sins shall haunt him till his grave beacause if ones motives are wrong nothing can be right and this is a law as inexorable as gravity. And as far as Raminder ‘Mindy’ Bhandher is concerned i strongly feel that his past records cannot be deciding factors for his credibility,as i attribute his misgivings as a result of being a defiant and a wild child. Mindy truly in his heart belives that mailk is innocent and Mindy as a person reflects strenght of character as to defend a man,who he belives to have done nuthin wrong,he has offered his head to the gullitone by giving a false testimony.