{"id":50068,"date":"2025-03-04T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/jagtar-singh-johal-acquitted-of-one-charge-by-indian-court\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T10:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:46:39","slug":"jagtar-singh-johal-acquitted-of-one-charge-by-indian-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/jagtar-singh-johal-acquitted-of-one-charge-by-indian-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagtar Singh Johal acquitted of one charge by Indian court"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A Scottish Sikh man detained in India for seven years has been acquitted in one of the nine cases against him.<\/p>\n

Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, faces several terror charges<\/a> in connection with political violence in the north of India but has never been convicted.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old was arrested in Punjab in November 2017, just weeks after his wedding there.<\/p>\n

His family and legal team said all the cases against him are similar and the other eight should now be dropped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He is accused of travelling to Paris in 2013 to hand over \u00a33,000 to a co-conspirator in the knowledge the money would be used to fund a series of attacks against Hindu nationalists and other religious leaders in Punjab.<\/p>\n

Mr Johal’s trial for the eight most serious cases against him started in 2022 and is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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