VANCOUVER - The Law Society of B.C. has reversed a finding of professional misconduct against the lawyer son of a man acquitted in the Air India bombings.
A ruling made in September of last year found Jaspreet Singh Malik misled the B.C. Supreme Court about financial matters concerning his father, Ripudaman Singh Malik.
The ruling said the younger Malik chose his duty to his family over his fundamental duty to the court, and suspended Malik for a month while ordering him to pay more than $2,500 in hearing costs.
But a review panel of the Society has now overturned that decision, although it has not yet released written reasons for the reversal.
"Today's decision means that the finding of professional misconduct for Mr. Malik has been quashed," the Society said in a statement released Tuesday.
The alleged misconduct by Malik came while his father was asking the court to force the B.C. government to pay his legal costs during a hearing in 2003.
Ripudaman Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were later acquitted in the Air India bombings of 1985 that killed 331 people.
One suitcase bomb destroyed Air India Flight 182 over the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland killing everyone on board, while the second blast killed two baggage handlers at Tokyo airport.
Last month, the only man who ever served time for the bombings was found guilty of perjury after a jury determined that Inderjit Singh Reyat lied during the trial of Malik and Bagri.
In 2003, Reyat pled guilty to manslaughter in the Air India Flight 182 blast and served a 10-year sentence.
