British Sikhs asked about Views On India at UK airports, says MP

British Sikhs are being stopped at airports and questioned about their attitudes towards India, a Labour MP has said, raising concerns about Delhi's influence over British security checks.

- Kiran Stacey

Preet Gill, one of the most prominent Sikhs in parliament, has written to the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, to voice her concern over a number of British Sikhs who she says have been stopped and questioned at length when re-entering the UK.

The questions centred on the decades-old dispute over whether Sikhs should be granted a homeland in south Asia. There is growing anger among British Sikhs about alleged harassment either by or on behalf of the Indian government and there is an escalating row between India and Canada over the shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia, which Canada believes involved Indian officials.

In her letter, which she sent in September, Gill raised the cases of "a number of Sikhs," she said had contacted her with concerns about being stopped at the British borders.