{"id":67396,"date":"2024-10-23T01:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/22\/canada-men-guilty-sikh-air-india-bombing"},"modified":"2024-10-23T01:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:27:55","slug":"two-men-plead-guilty-to-contract-killing-of-sikh-man-in-canada-but-dont-say-who-hired-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67396","title":{"rendered":"Two men plead guilty to contract killing of Sikh man in Canada but don\u2019t say who hired them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez trade blows in court after confessing to shooting Ripudaman Singh Malik<\/p>\n<p>Two men have pleaded guilty to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/canada-ripudaman-singh-malik-air-india-1985-bombing\">the contract killing<\/a> of a Sikh man who was acquitted in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight from Montreal to Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>According to an agreed statement of facts released by a British Columbia court on Monday, Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez confessed to shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/canada-ripudaman-singh-malik-air-india-1985-bombing\">Ripudaman Singh Malik<\/a> in 2022. But they remained silent over who hired and paid them for the murder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/22\/canada-men-guilty-sikh-air-india-bombing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez trade blows in court after confessing to shooting Ripudaman Singh MalikTwo men have pleaded guilty to the contract killing of a Sikh man who was acquitted in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight from Montreal to Mumbai.Acco&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,246,244,62,1282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-americas","category-canada","category-india","category-sikhism","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67396\/revisions\/67397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}