The lawyer son of Ripudaman Singh Malik, acquitted in Air India plane Kanishka Air bombing case, has been found guilty of professional misconduct by the Law Society of British Columbia.

Jaspreet Singh Malik was cited by the society in January 2006 over his involvement in his father’s application for government funding for his defence team during the trial of the Air India plane bombing. He provided an affidavit in a legal aid hearing known as Rowbotham application, which was later dismissed by a judge.

The British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein found that testimony of the Malik family was “simply unbelievable”.

In a ruling on Friday, a law society panel dismissed part of the case against Malik, but found that he had misled the court in his affidavit.

“The respondent is a lawyer and an officer of the court, and in this case he was also a witness, and as such he had a duty to ensure that the court was not misled by anything he said as a lawyer, or as a witness,” said the panel.

“We conclude that the respondent, by providing the misleading information, whether or not he did so in the execution of a plan to which any other person was a party, misconducted himself professionally.”

The misleading information related to claims that the lawyer and his siblings were owed hundreds of thousands of dollars by their dad for unpaid wages at the family hotel in Harrison Hot Springs in British Columbia. In his affidavit, Malik said he and his siblings were promised payment for the wages but had a limited ability to pay and the wages were recorded as contingent liabilities.