One of the men acquitted Wednesday of involvement in Canada's worst terrorist attack says he had nothing to do with the bomb that destroyed Air India Flight 182 in 1985, killing 329 people.

Ripudaman Singh Malik told the Globe and Mail that he knew nothing about the conspiracy that brought down the flight, which was en route from Vancouver to India via Europe.

"I am not a saint and I am not a devil," he told the paper. "I'm a human being and I make mistakes, and I try and make good judgments."

Ripudaman Singh Malik (file photo)

He and co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were found not guilty of conspiracy and murder in the attack after Justice Ian Bruce Josephson of the British Columbia Supreme Court said he simply did not believe the testimony of witnesses who linked the men to two bombs, one of which destroyed the airplane over the North Atlantic.

• FROM MARCH 16, 2005: 2 acquitted in Air India bombings

Malik told the Globe that the RCMP brought charges against him and his co-accused because the police had to charge someone after investigating the attack so intensely.

He said the RCMP encouraged a key witness against him, known only as Ms. D, to confirm their version of events.

He said the police told her she could get back at him by testifying against him.

She talked to the RCMP after Malik fired her from a job at a daycare centre he ran.

"I'm sympathetic to the RCMP. They're bending over backwards to do their job. They should not bend over backwards, they should just do their job," he said.