Weekly reporting A-I trial attacked

Vandals smashed the windows of the office of the Indo-Canadian Times in a bid to reduce coverage of the ongoing Air India trial.

British Columbia MLA Dave Hayer, whose father founded the weekly Punjabi-language newspaper in 1977, termed Saturday’s attack as the latest ‘‘intimidation tactic’’ to keep the paper from covering the trial. A week ago, eggs were thrown at his house, Hayer alleged. Hayer’s father Tara Singh was killed in November 1998 after giving police statements about people who may have been involved in the Kanishka bombing, The Globe and Mail reported.

A previous assassination attempt in 1988 left him paralysed from waist down following an article wherein he linked a suspect to the bombing.