<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A man discharged over the bombing of a 1985 Air India flight has been killed in a suspected targeted shooting in Canada, police say.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ripudaman Singh Malik was shot dead in his car in Surrey, British Columbia, and police found a burnt-out vehicle nearby.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Malik denied involvement in the terror attack that killed 329 people.</div><div><br></div><div>He was acquitted in 2005 but police were accused of having bungled the investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>The bombings - widely believed to have been carried out by Canadian-based Sikhs in retaliation for India's deadly 1984 storming of the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine in the Sikh religion - remain Canada's deadliest terror attack.</div><div><br></div><div>Following a two-year trial, Mr Malik, a Sikh businessman and co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted of mass murder and conspiracy charges related to the two bombings.</div><div><br></div><div>Canadian police have said they are still working to determine the motive behind the targeted killing of Mr Malik.</div><div><br></div><div>Air India flight 182 from Canada to India blew up off the Irish coast, killing all 329 people on board - most of them Canadian citizens visiting relatives in India - on 23 June 1985.</div><div><br></div><div>About the same time, a second bomb exploded prematurely in Japan, killing two baggage handlers.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Bagri and Mr Malik were accused of planting the bombs on board the plane.</div><div><br></div><div>But the prosecution case turned on the reliability of key prosecution witnesses, who claimed the accused had privately confessed to involvement in the bombing. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>