Overview

• The Supreme Court issued notices to the Union government, Ladakh administration and Jodhpur jail on a habeas corpus plea by Gitanjali J Angmo challenging Sonam Wangchuk’s preventive detention under the National Security Act.
• The case is listed for further hearing on October 14, with the bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N. V. Anjaria seeking responses after a brief hearing.
• The court asked the Centre to consider supplying the grounds of detention to Wangchuk’s wife; the Solicitor General said the grounds had been served on the detainee and agreed to examine sharing them with her.
• Angmo’s petition alleges she is under virtual house arrest, that neither she nor her husband received the detention grounds, and that staff and students at HIAL are being harassed, while seeking his production, access, and basic necessities.
• Authorities accuse Wangchuk of making provocative statements linked to the September 24 Leh violence that left four dead, and they have canceled his NGO’s FCRA registration, as Wangchuk from jail calls for an independent judicial inquiry into the deaths.