Lord Cameron, the foreign secretary, pledges to re-examine the case of Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal.
The foreign secretary has urged the Indian government to "speed up" the case of a Scottish man detained in India for more than six years.
A cross-party group of MPs has said that having arrested him, "interrogators electrocuted him, and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him alight". "I want to really stress that as an incoming foreign secretary, you don't just accept what the government has said up to now, you really look at it, you really ask the questions."
"I expected more," he said. "I expected answers from the UK government as to why they've not called for Jagtar's release - he didn't do that. "It's pathetic that this is the extent of the UK government's concerns when a British national is arbitrarily detained for six years and counting, on the basis of a torture confession."Mr Johal's trial for the eight most serious cases against him started in 2022 but he still has not been convicted of any crime.
A spokesperson said: "Mr Johal is facing criminal trials in no less than eight cases of hate crimes with charges relating to extremely serious offences including terror crimes, conspiracy to murder, and merciless assassinations of people belongings to different faiths.