Rishi Sunak refuses to commit to raising Jagtar Singh Johal's case with Indian PM Narendra Modi.
Lord Ahmad added that the UK government would continue to raise concerns with India and that British officials regularly visited Mr Johal to check on his welfare.
MP for West Dunbartonshire Mr Docherty-Hughes said the prime minister had "chosen not only to prioritise a desperate bid for a free trade deal over the life of a British citizen, he has also chosen to snub a perfectly reasonable request to him made by more than 70 of his fellow MPs". Mr Johal, a 36 year-old campaigner for Sikh human rights, travelled to India in October 2017 to get married.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said he had been targeted because he had called for "accountability for alleged actions committed against Sikhs by the authorities".Speaking to the BBC, Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet - a lawyer and Labour councillor - said Lord Ahmad was concerned but "clearly had no power to get things done".
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