Nine years after being pulled from a car days after his wedding, British Sikh man Jagtar Singh Johal has been granted bail by a Delhi court — a moment that arrives not as resolution, but as a fragile threshold. His case has traced the long, grinding distance between accusation and evidence, between diplomatic caution and moral clarity. The ruling offers his family in Scotland their first real breath of hope, even as eight remaining cases, carrying the death penalty, remind us that justice, when it finally stirs, does not always arrive whole.
British Sikh man granted bail after nine years in Indian detention
Jagtar Singh Johal endured nine years of arbitrary detention, including alleged torture, separation from his wife and family in Scotland.
Crime & Justice