UK Parliament body demands Windrush-hit Indians not be ignored

A UK Parliament committee on Wednesday demanded that the government must not "simply ignore" Indians and other Commonwealth citizens caught up in the Windrush scandal, involving historic immigrants wrongly denied their citizenship rights in the UK.

In its report at the end of a review into the scandal, the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was extremely critical of the UK Home Office's handling of the crisis. It concluded that while the majority of those embroiled in the crisis were of Caribbean origin, other Commonwealth nationalities caught up in a similar situation deserved more attention.

"The Windrush scandal concerns the entire Commonwealth, not only Caribbean nationals, and while the Department [Home Office] has reviewed 11,800 Caribbean cases, around 160,000 non-Caribbean Commonwealth cases remain unreviewed. We believe these people cannot be simply ignored," concludes the report by the committee of cross-party MPs.

"Despite clearly acknowledging to us that a ..