VANCOUVER – A man acquitted in the Air India bombings has repaid the B.C. government $6.3 million in legal costs but now wants an appeal of the judgment that required him to hand over the money.
Ripudaman Singh Malik wants the government to pay his trial costs in 2003 and 2004 and is scheduled to attend a court hearing on that matter next week.
Malik had sued the B.C. and federal governments for malicious prosecution but has discontinued that application.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for the millionaire businessman told the B.C. Court of Appeal that his client also wants to appeal an Appeal Court‘s decision forcing him to pay back the legal fees, based on alleged legal errors.
Malik and his co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were charged with mass murder and conspiracy in the deaths of 331 people in the twin 1985 Air India bombings.
They were acquitted in 2005.
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