‘Documented history of anti-India hostility’: Centre trashes UK Parliamentary report; calls out ‘unverified and dubious sources’ | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: India on Friday strongly rejected a British parliamentary committee report that accuses it of engaging in transnational repression (TNR) activities in the UK, dismissing the claims as baseless and sourced from “dubious” and “discredited” individuals with a history of “anti-India hostility”.Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal in a statement said: “We have seen the references to India in the report and categorically reject these baseless allegations. These claims stem from unverified and dubious sources, predominantly linked to proscribed entities and individuals with a clear, documented history of anti-India hostility.”“The deliberate reliance on discredited sources calls into question the credibility of the report itself,” the statement added.The UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), in its report titled Transnational Repression in the UK, claimed that several countries, including India, had attempted to intimidate or silence individuals and communities on British soil. The report states that “multiple evidence submissions accused Bahrain, China, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates of perpetrating TNR in the UK.”India was named alongside 11 other countries against whom the committee claimed to have received evidence. However, the source material presented in the report refers specifically to allegations made by Sikhs for Justice, a pro-Khalistan group that has been declared an “unlawful association” under India’s Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.The report, authored by a cross-party group of MPs, alleged that foreign states had conducted activities on UK soil that “instilled fear, limited freedom of expression and movement, and undermined people’s sense of safety.” It also claimed that MI5’s state-threat investigations had risen by 48% since 2022.