Assassins of BC Man Acquitted of Air India Bombing ‘Hired and Paid’: Court Document

RCMP and Surrey Police officers work at the scene of a shooting near a red Tesla vehicle, back, in Surrey, B.C., on July 14, 2022. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Court documents in the case of two men who murdered British Columbia businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik in 2022 say they were “hired and paid” to kill him.

However, the agreed statement of facts does not say who hired them to kill Malik, who was acquitted in 2005 in a B.C. court of the Air India bombings that killed 331 people in 1985.