VANCOUVER, November 15, 2004
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The Crown says speeches by a man accused in the Air India case show a man bent on revenge -- and provide a motive for two Air India bombings the next year.

The bombings killed 331 people, including 329 on an Air India flight.

Crown prosecutor Richard Cairns was making his closing arguments against Ajaib Singh Bagri in B-C Supreme Court in Vancouver.

He replayed two speeches by Bagri after Indian troops raided the Sikhs' Golden Temple at Amritsar in 1984.

Cairns says the tapes show a man seething with anger and thirsting for revenge.

In one speech, Bagri tells the crowd -- quote: ``until we kill 50-thousand Hindus we will not rest, '' and that Sikhs must ``raze Delhi to the ground'' and ``demolish India to dust.''

In their earlier arguments, Bagri's defence acknowledged their client got carried away in his address but that what was called an ``over the top'' speech is consistent with Sikh practice.