Sir as Prime Minister Kir Stamor What he called a “historic day”, toasted it For British-Indian Relationship in checkers, bus yards Downing Street Two youths Britain Standing with a poster tapped on his jackets and accessories.
Alois Christian Mitchell and his sister Alioner were not opposing a government policy or business deal. They were request for their father’s freedom Christian Mitchell.
Michelle, a British citizen, has spent more than six years Disorganized in the notorious Tihar Jail of India without a lawsuit. Delhi High Court despite bail orders from both And the Supreme Court of India, he is imprisonment after failing to fulfill the conditions set to fulfill – stuck in a legal and political limb, with no end.
Mitchell’s son, who gave a special interview Independent During the protest with his sister, he says that he has consistently lost patience with the UK governments.
“The UK government has failed to address human rights violations badly Commonwealth The country, especially in India, says “Alois, 27.” A British national such as my father has now been illegally detained by Indian officials for seven years, yet neither the previous government nor the present have taken any concrete action against this inhuman conduct. ,
He was opposed at the same time as Sir Keir and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi In investment, £ 6BN was holding a meeting to approve a comprehensive trade agreement that is expected to promote Britain Gross domestic product About £ 5BN.
Referring to British officials, Alois says: “They say they will ‘increase interest’ in the case. After seven years, is it all ridiculous.”
A businessman and advisor, Mitchell, was extradited from Dubai to India in 2018, in which he served as a middleman in the 2010 defense deal associated with Italian firm AgustaWestland. Indian investigators allege that bribe was paid to secure the £ 322M contract for the supply of helicopters – he accuses.
India’s legal system is notorious slow and overburdan, which is why a law is that a suspect should be released from jail. Once they convict the maximum punishment when they are convicted, they are served half. In the case of Mitchell, which was seven years, which means that it should have been released in the middle through 2021.
Their lawyers argue that they should be freed unconditionally – instead, the courts granted them bail while investigators continue to investigate their case. This means that Mitchell lives in jail as he cannot fulfill the strict conditions imposed. They have no address in India, there are no family members in the country, and no one is ready to act as a guarantor – factors that have effectively provided the bail order.
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At a hearing in April, Mitchell revealed the court that the only person wishing to do a vach for him was for Johnson, former MP and brother former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Back in London, their children are cut off from their father, their only contact is brief, the phone call has been choked.
“The last time I spoke to him was the last weekend. Less than 10 seconds,” Alois tells Independent“We get all this. I have not seen him in about seven and a half years.”
He was just 20 years old when his father was extradited. “I was in the middle of my studies. Everything just stopped,” he remembers. “Emotionally, financially, it’s really difficult. And for my sister … she was just a teenager when our father was removed.”
Brothers and sisters have never seen their father in India. The reason, Alois says, there is fear.
“He is in Tihar Jail. I would like to see him, but how much risk I am going to go there? In a country that does not follow his own laws, he can also arrest me – use me as a length with my father,” he says. “This is very dangerous. And I will not put me in a situation where my father is forced to do anything due to my arrest in India.”
They have justification for being worried. Michelle has accused his life of two different efforts on his life in jail, claiming that a rental killer is paying to kill him. Despite their appeal, no meaningful investigation was initiated, they claim.
“A professional killer tried to kill me twice,” Mitchell said Independent While appearing in the earlier court. “They were paid the money, and they never investigated who paid him or why.”
Mitchell’s legal team argues that the whole matter is politically motivated, a claim that arbitrarily inducted the United Nations Working Group in custody in 2021, ruled in 2021 that his detention was arbitrary and called for his immediate release.
, United Nations It is said that it should be released. Indian law states that they should be released. And yet, here we are, “Mitchell’s son says.” Whatever we are asking is to follow its laws with the Government of India. And for the UK government to catch them. ,
“We really want to be something,” says Alois. “Some people wait in hope. In our case, we wait in disappointment.”
As his examination has increased, Michelle’s health has been faced. He was admitted to all earlier this year India The Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Hospitals in Delhi for hip surgery, and since they participate in court attendance, have gone with a sugarcane.
“We have a fear now,” says Alois. “He never comes back.”
Michelle’s detention of custody moves far beyond the suffering of a single family. Their case has become a litmus test of the UK government’s desire to protect its citizens abroad – especially when the risk of doing so complicates attractive diplomatic engagement.
“The people of Great Britain gave a clear and magnificent mandate Workers Michelle’s son says that to regain the country from the grip of bureaucracy and restore the pride of the country.
Joint efforts against trade, security cooperation and organized crime were in the news around the Modi-tractor summit.
But despite the family’s heartbreak, Mitchell’s imprisonment was not publicly lifted during Modi’s visit to Britain. Neither the leader allowed the media to ask any questions and his conversation took place in the Prime Minister’s residence, which is far from any public performance of anger in London.
“We are just asking the two governments to honor the United Nations ruling,” Alois says. “Follow the law, and let it go.”