Overview

• On June 23, 1985, a bomb destroyed Air India Flight 182, killing all 307 passengers and 22 crew members.
• An hour earlier, a related device exploded at Tokyo’s Narita Airport, killing two baggage handlers.
• The 2005 trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri cost nearly $60 million but ended in their acquittal on mass murder and conspiracy charges.
• Inderjit Singh Reyat pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the bombings, was later convicted of perjury at the Malik-Bagri trial and was released in 2016.
• Mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar was killed by Indian police in 1992, and acquitted suspect Ripudaman Singh Malik was murdered by hired gunmen in 2022.