Malik shooting: Homicide investigators are now trying to figure out who killed the controversial community leader, one-time terror suspect, wealthy businessman and founder of the Khalsa Credit Union and Khalsa Schools.
“I’m not privy to the ongoing investigations on Malik right now, but I can say that from years when I was that he was involved in a number of activities that might bring him into conflict with other people.”
“I watched that interview. And he was a different person than he portrays in public for sure. He was cocky. He took his turban off, and he had his feet up on the desk, and really playing games,” Bass recalled. “And coming very close to confessing and then kind of backing away … not the pious religious guy that he’d like everyone to think for sure.”
Malik cited the elimination of blacklists like the one he was once on and the reopening of criminal cases for suspects in murders during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as well as a declaration that the riots were in fact a genocide. Air India — then the country’s national airline — was bombed to retaliate against the Indian government for its attack on Amritsar’s Golden Temple a year earlier, which left hundreds of Sikh pilgrims dead.
Surrey RCMP did not release his name, but Postmedia confirmed it with a number of sources and it was being widely reported on Thursday. Former B.C. premier Ujjal Dosanjh first met Malik in the 1970s when the local South Asian community in Vancouver was very small. Dosanjh thinks that it’s possible Malik’s recent support of the Indian government he once reviled could be a motive in the murder.
And he also said Malik’s recent support for the government of India might be the motive in the shooting.
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