Overview
- The RCMP told family representatives it is considering reducing the size of the dedicated Air India task force and changing the file to an inactive status, a move that would end active investigative work.
- Family leaders, led by Sanjay Lazar, have written to Prime Minister Mark Carney and other officials to demand the probe continue and to protest the proposed scaling back.
- Relatives are calling for renewed public action, including reinstating and increasing the unclaimed 1995 $1-million reward and launching a fresh public appeal for information.
- Families renewed long-standing complaints about the original inquiry, citing missing evidence, deleted surveillance recordings and the deaths or threats to witnesses that they say left the case unresolved.
- The RCMP has previously described the Air India investigation as one of its largest and most complex and the intelligence service has publicly attributed the bombing to Canada-based Khalistani extremists.