The Tory PM said he wants to ensure “justice is done” but did not say he would raise the issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Rishi Sunak has refused to commit to lobbying the Indian Prime Minister about the case of Dumbarton man Jagtar Singh Johal.Sikh blogger Johal was in Punjab in northern India for his wedding in 2017 when his family said he was arrested and bundled into an unmarked car.
A cross-party group of at least 70 MPs wrote to Sunak this week calling on him to press the Hindu nationalist leader to “immediately release” Johal. Asked by reporters on the plane to New Delhi whether he would raise Johal’s case with Modi, Sunak said: “Both the Foreign Secretary and Foreign Office ministers have raised this case on multiple occasions with their counterparts.
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