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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Briton Jagtar Singh Johal acquitted in first India terror trial

A British man who has spent seven years in jail in India on terror charges that could carry the death penalty has been acquitted in one of the nine cases against him.

Jagtar Singh Johal, a 37-year-old Dumbarton-based campaigner for Sikh rights, was detained in India’s Punjab state in 2017 over accusations of involvement with the banned Sikh separatist Khalistani Liberation Force.

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