Sikh activist who died in UK could have been poisoned, says pathologist

Family of Avtar Singh Khanda, who was thought to be on Indian authorities' radar and died in 2023, call for inquest

The family of a Sikh activist who died suddenly in 2023 have made new calls for an inquest after a pathologist found the result of the postmortem exam does not mean that a poisoning can be completely excluded".

Avtar Singh Khanda, 35, died in June 2023, four days after being admitted to a hospital in Birmingham feeling unwell. The official cause of death was acute myeloid leukaemia, a blood cancer.