Brother of Jagtar Singh Johal "encouraged" after meeting with Foreign Secretary David Lammy

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The brother of a Dumbarton man detained in India for more than seven years met with Foreign Secretary David Lammy last week.Gurpreet Singh Johal, the brother of former OLSP pupil Jagtar Singh Johal, met the Foreign Secretary David Lammy last Wednesday at Westminster.Sikh activist Jagtar faces terror charges in connection with political violence in the north of the India after he was arrested while visiting Punjab for his wedding in 2017.He is accused of being involved in a political murder plot.Gurpreet described the meeting as “encouraging” and said the Foreign Secretary “is obviously taking this seriously”.However, he noted that “the proof is in the pudding - and that means getting Jagtar out of prison and back to Dumbarton.”Gurpreet has campaigned tirelessly on Jagtar’s continued arbitrary detention in Indi, urging the UK Government to secure his release and return to ScotlandDavid Lammy is the fifth Foreign Secretary to meet Gurpreet, following Conservatives Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, James Cleverly and David Cameron, and the seventh since Jagtar was first detained in 2017.While Leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer wrote both to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, calling on them to officially seek Jagtar’s release – something a series of Conservative governments failed to do.Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy have also both acknowledged that Jagtar is arbitrarily detained with no legal basis.Speaking after the meeting, Gurpreet said: “Over the last seven years, I’ve heard a lot of empty talk from previous Foreign Secretaries about my brother’s case.“After today’s meeting I’m a lot more hopeful that this new Government will do what is right.“David Lammy listened to what we had to say and the