India, Aug. 1 -- India on Friday strongly dismissed a British parliamentary committee report that named it among countries allegedly involved in "transnational repression" in the United Kingdom, calling the allegations "baseless" and rooted in dubious, anti-India sources.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) asserted that the report's references to India, released by the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights on July 30, were based on "unverified" inputs from banned or discredited organisations.

"We have seen the references to India in the report and categorically reject these baseless allegations," MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in response to media queries.

He further stated that, "These claims stem from unverified ...