Jagtar Singh Johal ‘Moved to Solitary’ after Acquittal


UK – BBC, April 02, 2025

A British Sikh who has been imprisoned in India on terror charges for more than seven years has now been moved into solitary confinement, according to his brother and a human rights group.

Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton was detained on a trip to Punjab a few weeks after his wedding in 2017 accused of being a part of a series of targeted killings of religious and political figures.

A series of nine criminal cases were launched against him in Punjab and in Delhi, but last month he was acquitted in the first of those.

His family and lawyers have always insisted that the evidence against him is almost entirely based on a confession given under severe duress.

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