The videotapes contain interviews with witness Daljit Singh Sandhu conducted more than 10 years ago. The prosecution claims the interviews show Sandhu making remarks that contradict evidence he gave in court this week.
Sandhu is being questioned about the inconsistencies.

A spokesman for the CBC legal department said the corporation complied with a court order late Thursday afternoon and turned the tapes over to the judge. The tapes contain two stories that were previously broadcast on the CBC in 1989 and 1991. They will now be used during Sandhu's cross-examination.

Sandhu, a well-known Sikh leader and former temple president, was named by a Crown witness as the man who picked up the tickets for the Air India bombing.

On the witness stand earlier this week, Sandhu flatly denied that he had anything to do with the tickets or the bombing. He said he never supported violence. But a CBC News report from 1989 tells a different story.

At a demonstration outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, in support of two Sikhs hanged for the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, with one of the accused Air India bombers Ajaib Singh Bagri listening, Sandhu praised the two assassins.

"We congratulate those families who have produced such martyrs." Later, Sandhu went further, explicitly endorsing the murder. "They did a job and nobody else could do it ... we are proud of their actions, their families are proud," he said.

The statements directly contradict what Sandhu said under oath about not endorsing violence.

Sandhu also spoke about Inderjit Singh Reyat. Under oath on Tuesday, Sandhu said he met Reyat a couple of times, but otherwise had no connection with him.

Again, the CBC archives contradict him.

"Inderjit Singh Reyat is not that kind of person. I know that person for more than 15 years and a person like that would not do that kind of thing and I still believe he is innocent," said Sandhu in a 1991 interview, claiming Reyat as an old friend.

Crown prosecutors want the statements entered as evidence because they seemingly contradict Sandhu's testimony that he doesn't condone violence as a means of advancing Sikh independence.

Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri are on trial in B.C. Supreme Court, charged with killing 331 people in two separate bombings on the same day in June 1985. One bomb killed 329 people on board Air India Flight 182, most of them Canadians. The other bomb killed two baggage handlers at Tokyo's Narita Airport.