Convicted terrorist Inderjit Singh Reyat will have to raise $500,000 bail before he is released from jail for the first time in more than 20 years, The Vancouver Sun has learned.

Reyat, the only man convicted in the Air India bombing that killed 329 people, was ordered freed on bail by the B.C. Court of Appeal Wednesday, pending a perjury trial early next year.

But the conditions of his release were kept secret, though Attorney-General Wally Oppal described them as "extremely strict."

However, The Sun has confirmed that one of the conditions is bail to the tune of half a million dollars.

Reyat's friends and supporters had not yet provided the court with sureties guaranteeing the bail by the time the appeal court registry closed Wednesday.