PTI
 
Toronto, May 2: Canada's new Conservative government is set to launch a public inquiry into the 1985 Air India bombings, media reports said on Monday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has decided on terms of reference for the inquiry after his government consulted with families of some of the 331 victims.

The bombing of Air India Flight 182 Kanishka on June 23, 1985, killed all on board the Montreal-London flight.

Harper has long supported a full judicial inquiry into the bombings, which the previous Liberal government opposed.

He appointed former Supreme Court justice John Major in March to recommend guidelines for the inquiry after consulting with victims' relatives.

Only one man, Inderjit Singh Reyat, has ever been convicted in the attacks.

He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2003 after striking a plea bargain under which he was convicted on lesser charges of manslaughter and with assisting in the construction of the bomb.

He was expected to provide testimony in the trials of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, but later claimed he couldn't remember. Malik and Bagri were acquitted last year.