Canada: Two accused plead guilty of murder of Ripudaman Singh Malik
Surrey, October 22, 2024: Two persons accused of killing Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Sikh man acquitted in the tragic 1985 Air India Kanishka terrorist bombing case, have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Canadian court. This has been disclosed in different media reports.
These two men have been identified as Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez. They have filed their pleas in Supreme Court in British Columbia in which they have pleaded guilty of killing Malik on July 14, 2022. He was shot dead in Surrey outside his business office.
It is worth mentioning here that Malik and another co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted in 2005 in case of two bombings in 1985 that killed 331 persons.