Senior lawyers criticise handling of case of Sikh activist held in India

Peers express fears Jaghtar Singh Johal will not receive due process' in India amid torture claims

Assurances by a UK minister that a British man imprisoned in India will receive a fair trial fly in the face of evidence that he has been tortured and arbitrarily detained, three lawyers who held senior public roles have warned.

To coincide with the sixth anniversary of Jaghtar Singh Johal's detention, Sir Ken MacDonald KC, Elish Angiolini KC and Jim Wallace KC have written to the UK Foreign Office minister, Lord Ahmad, asking him to retract his recent comments saying that the British citizen will receive due process" in India.