Starmer ‘Has Not Forgotten’ About Briton Detained in India for Eight Years

 

UK – Independent, Oct. 08, 2025

Jagtar Singh Johal, a Sikh activist from Dumbarton, was arrested in India just weeks after his wedding in 2017.

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he has not forgotten about a British citizen who has been locked up in an Indian jail for nearly eight years, as he visits the country on a trade mission.

The Prime Minister said the case of Jagtar Singh Johal, a Sikh activist from Dumbarton near Glasgow, was being raised on “every level”.

Sir Keir is due to meet with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Thursday, with whom he previously raised Mr Johal’s case in July.

Thirty-eight-year-old Mr Johal is said to have passed on a message to Sir Keir in which he asked if there was “a way of speeding things up” in regards to the end of his eight-year detention.

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