Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysis Sign up

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice .

“Faster progress” is needed to resolve the case of a British man who has now spent eight years behind bars in India, Downing Street has said.

Jagtar Singh Johal, a Sikh activist from Dumbarton near Glasgow , was detained by the Indian authorities on November 4 2017, just weeks after his wedding in the south Asian country, and has remained in jail ever since.

He was acquitted earlier this year in a case in which he was accused of financially supporting a terror group, but he still faces federal charges from the Indian authorities, which his supporters say are effecti

See Full Page