A pre trial hearing in the Air India bombing case was adjourned on Monday until December.
Justice Ian Bruce Josephson of the Supreme Court of British Columbia asked defense lawyers and prosecutors to return to court December 5 for three days of hearings.
Lawyer David Martin, who is representing Inderjit Singh Reyat, and co-counsel David Butcher, spent Monday morning presenting arguments before Josephson, but because of a ban on publication, none of what was said can be reported.
Outside court on Monday, none of the defense lawyers would comment on the day's proceedings.
Earlier, lawyers for Ripudaman Singh Malik of Vancouver and Ajaib Singh Bagri of Kamloops, B.C. - the other two men accused of killing 329 people aboard Air India Flight 182, indicated they were eager to proceed to trial because their clients had been in custody since their arrest in Oct. 2000.
For the first time since briefly after their arrest, both Malik and Bagri appeared in court - as did Reyat, who has attended more frequently since his arrest last June.
All three waved and gestured at family and supporters and also laughed freely.
Malik, Bagri and Reyat are charged with being Sikh separatists who targeted India's national airline in June 1985 to retaliate against the Indian government for its raid on Amritsar's Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, a year earlier.
The men's trial is still set for February 4.
Bureau Report