A cross-party group of at least 70 MPs have written to the Prime Minister asking him to press the Hindu nationalist leader to 'immediately release' the Scots Sikh.
More than 70 MPs have urged the Prime Minister to use his trip to India to raise the case of a Scottish Sikh who has been jailed in the country for almost six years.
Rishi Sunak is due to travel to the G20 summit in New Delhi at the weekend and is likely to meet Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. But the SNP’s Martin Docherty-Hughes, who has campaigned for Mr Johal’s freedom, said the “arbitrary detention by the Indian government” of a British national should “challenge the very basis of any trade deal”.
“The British public and politicians are watching Rishi Sunak closely as the last thing he should be doing is appeasing India and discriminating against Jagtar Singh Johal because he is a Sikh activist.” The charity tweeted: “A Brit unjustly facing the death penalty overseas should be a matter of national priority, it’s time for the PM to act.
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