By: Lauren Codling
SIX British men have been released from an Indian prison on Tuesday (28) after a high court overturned their five-year jail sentences on Monday (27). The men were acquitted by a court, alongside 29 others, of illegal possession of arms while they were on a US-operated anti-piracy boat. The men were collected from prison by British embassy officials on Tuesday and were seen being driven away. “Officials from the UK embassy came and took them after completing their paperwork,” Murugesan, deputy inspector general of prisons in the southeastern city of Chennai, told an international news source. The six Britons, three Ukrainians,…
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