A sense of despondency has gripped the families of two British nationals who have, between them, spent more than a decade imprisoned without trial or conviction in some of India’s most crowded jails as their cases churn through the country’s notoriously slow legal system.
Jagtar Singh Johal and Christian Michel were not detained under similar circumstances, but their lawyers and families say their incarceration is long past any defensible legal justification, as they accuse the UK government of failing to bring the two men home despite strengthening diplomatic ties with India.
