VANCOUVER, April 02,2004- A lawyer representing one of
the accused in the Air India trial in Vancouver, wants to call two Crown
lawyers to give evidence.
Richard Peck, who's representing Ajaib
Singh Bagri, is expected to ask the B.C. Supreme Court to grant an order
to subpoena the two prosecutors.
Dozens of witnesses with connections to
the accused bombers have given testimony since the Air India trial began
last April. Now defence lawyers want to hear evidence from prosecutors
in the case.
Peck is expected to make his motion on
Friday, asking that Margaret Mereigh and Mitch Dufresne be ordered to
testify. Mereigh and Dufresne are junior counsel on the prosecution
team.
On Thursday, Peck told the court he wants
to question them about the notes they took concerning a witness named
Narinder Singh Gill. The notes are from a meeting prosecutors had with
Gill last July to prepare him for the trial.
Peck claims the information contained in
the notes is inconsistent with the evidence Gill gave in court.
Gill is a Crown witness who testified last
October.
In the 1980s Gill had ties to Babbar Khalsa
and the International Sikh Youth Federation. Both groups are on the
federal government's list of terrorist organizations.
Gill gave testimony linking both defendants
to a meeting of Sikhs in Seattle around the time of the 1985 Air India
bombings.