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Family of Scot detained in India urges Liz Truss to demand release after five years

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The family of a Scots man fighting for his release after five long years in an Indian jail have met with the Foreign Secretary and urged her to call for his return home.

Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, was travelling to his wedding in 2017 when he wasarrested by Indian authorities on claims of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.

His family have been pressing for the UK Government to follow the UN's lead declare that Jagtar's imprisonment is "arbitrary" and ask for his immediate release.

Jagtar's brother Gurpreet has now met with minister Liz Truss - the first Foreign Secretary to do so since the arrest in 2017 - together with his MP Martin Docherty Hughes.The minster has promised to continue raising the Scots case at the highest level but not to seeking his release.Gurpreet told the Record: “I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for meeting me.

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