Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man ever convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings, had to raise $500,000 before he could be released from prison pending his trial on a charge of perjury.

The lengthy list of conditions that Reyat must obey to remain on bail pending his trial early next year were released by the court Friday, two days after the Appeal Court granted his release.

Reyat, 56, left prison for the first time in more than two decades Thursday and was driven immediately to his home in Surrey, where he must remain.

There are 14 conditions, including that Reyat must remain inside his house unless he has to visit a bail supervisor, attend court, visit his temple or leave for medical reasons.

B.C. Court of Appeal Justice Anne Rowles also restricted Reyat from possessing any weapons or explosives and ordered that he allow RCMP with an explosives-trained dog to search his home.

Reyat has served the last 20 years in prison on two separate manslaughter convictions connected to the deaths of 331 people in two bomb attacks.

He was convicted for providing the parts to assemble both bombs.

He now faces a perjury charge for the testimony he gave in September 2003 at the trial of two men charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the Air India bombings -- Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri.

In acquitting Malik and Bagri, the trial judge called Reyat an "unmitigated liar under oath" and listed 27 alleged instances.

The maximum sentence for a perjury conviction is 14 years.

The B.C. Supreme Court had denied Reyat bail, but Rowles overturned that, saying the trial judge erred because he misinterpreted a Criminal Code section.

She said Reyat had to be released unless the Crown could  justify detention or show that he should be detained under a section that includes serious crimes such as murder and treason.

Perjury doesn't rank among those more serious offences, she ruled.

Rowles also suggested the trial judge ordered Reyat's continued detention by mistakenly linking him directly to the Air India offence.

"It is my respectful view that the hearing judge was in error in conflating (blending together) the offence of perjury with which Mr. Reyat is charged and the offence of conspiracy to commit murder with which others were charged," Rowles said in her ruling.

The judge, however, did express some reservations.

While he showed "exemplary" behaviour while in prison, she noted that Reyat  "had sympathy for acts of violence in a political cause in India and was prepared to aid others in that cause by procuring components for explosive devices."

She said that if he continued to harbour those same sympathies, he could present a risk to public safety.

But she said she was satisfied that risk could be addressed through the strict conditions she imposed.

Finally, she said the hearing judge erred when he ruled that Reyat must be kept in custody to maintain confidence in the administration of justice.

"An informed member of the community would recognize that Mr. Reyat is entitled to the presumption of innocence in relation to the perjury charge, regardless of his past criminal misconduct for which he has already been punished by serving sentences totalling the equivalent of 25 years."

It's believed the plot against Air India was hatched by militant extremists in B.C. who were allegedly retaliating against the government-owned airline for a raid on the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine.

Read the text from the British Columbia Court of Appeal here.

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