UK – BBC, March 04, 2025
A Scottish Sikh man detained in India for seven years on terror charges has been cleared in one of nine cases against him.
Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton was arrested in 2017 in the country’s northern Punjab region weeks after his wedding there.
He has been held in prison ever since, on trial for his alleged role in a series of targeted killings of religious and political figures.
Now a verdict in the District Court in Moga, Punjab, has acquitted him of conspiracy under the country’s anti-terror law and of being a member of a “terrorist gang”.
His legal team say the allegations against Mr Johal in all the cases, for which he faces the death penalty, are close to identical and that the other charges should now be dismissed.
