Sikh Held in 1985 Jet Bombing Off Ireland
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BOMBAY, India — Police on Friday reported the arrest of a top Sikh extremist they say was involved in the 1985 bombing of an Air India jetliner that killed all 329 people aboard.
City police chief S. Ramamurthi said officers of an anti-terrorist squad caught Manjit Singh on Thursday outside a railroad station in Bombay. He said Singh, 30, is “a top-ranking Sikh terrorist who has been eluding the U.S., British, Canadian and Indian security agencies for almost a decade.”
The Boeing 747, which was on a flight from Montreal to London en route to Bombay and New Delhi, plunged 31,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985.
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