The Hindu : 'Kanishka bombing accused must pay own legal fees'

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'Kanishka bombing accused must pay own legal fees'

VANCOUVER SEPT. 20. One of the two men accused in the Air India Kanishka bombing, Ripudaman Singh Malik, will have to pay his own legal fees as he claimed to be a multi-millionaire at an earlier bail hearing, a British Columbia court has ruled.

Turning down Malik's application claiming legal aid from the British Columbia Provincial Government, Judge Sunni Stromberg-Stein said that "any perceived cash shortage is artificial and contrived".

Malik, who faces first degree murder and conspiracy charges along with co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri for the June 23, 1985 bombing of the AI flight 182 that killed 329 people, told a bail hearing in December 2000 that he and his wife had a net worth of $9 million, the Toronto Star said.

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