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Gemma Ryder

Keir Starmer urges Boris Johnson to demand release of Scot Jagtar Singh Johal detained in India

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called on the Prime Minister to seek the "immediate release" of a Scots man that has been detained in India for five years.

Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, was arrested by Indian authorities when travelling to his wedding there in 2017.

He is being held without trial under India's anti-terror laws after being accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.

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