Outcry in India as Boris Johnson visits JCB plant amid demolitions row

Observers criticise optics of PM at factory while bulldozers seen in TV coverage of razing of settlements

Boris Johnson's attempt to use his India visit to hail the success of JCB, the digger firm owned by a Tory donor, was met with a backlash on Thursday over the use of its machinery in the mass demolition of homes.

The prime minister arrived in India as a fierce row rages in Delhi over the demolition of mainly Muslim settlements in an area of the capital hit by communal violence - an issue that is being considered by India's supreme court.