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Will Parminder Singh Saini be able to practise law in Canada?
WSN Network

TORONTO: With his immigration status still up in the air, a convicted Sikh terrorist will find out in the coming weeks whether he can practise law in Toronto.

Parminder Singh Saini, who has been fighting deportation from Canada since 1995, this month completed a "good character" hearing mandated by the Law Society of Upper Canada to determine whether he is eligible for a lawyer's licence. The hearing panel reserved its decision indefinitely, and society spokeswoman Jane Withey said it could be weeks or even months before a result is handed down.

Saini was among thnose accused of hijacking an Air India flight on its way from India to Pakistan in 1984, as a amrk of protest against the Indian army's attack on Sri Akal Takht Sahib and Sri Darbar Sahib and tens of other gurdwaras across Punjab.

No one was seriously injured in the incident, but Saini was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in a Pakistani jail. He was released after 10 years and came  to Canada.

He has since been fighting to stay in this country, a process that has been grinding its way through layers of federal bureaucracy for years. For their part, Saini and his lawyer, Frank Addario, are not giving interviews until the judgment is released.

30 September 2009
 

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