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The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025) has allowed Gitanjali Angmo, woman of detained activist Sonam Wangchuk, to record an amended petition highlighting lapses connected the portion of the authorities which onslaught astatine the instauration of the law and statutory safeguards embodied nether the NSA, 1980.
One of them, Ms. Angmo pointed out, was that the implicit grounds of his detention were lone supplied to Mr. Wangchuk aft a “flagrant delay” of 28 days and connected the eve of the proceeding earlier the Advisory Board, crippling his quality to marque his representations effectively.
She submitted that the detention was based connected “stale FIRs” registered good implicit a twelvemonth agone and successful which her hubby was not adjacent named.
Four important videos which formed the “core evidentiary foundation” of the grounds of detention were besides not shared with Mr. Wangchuk wrong the specified play of 5 to 10 days of detention nether the NSA.
Further, recommendations upon which the detention bid was passed and the endorsement/notification of September 26 authorising the District Magistrate, Leh to contented the bid was besides not supplied to Mr. Wangchuk.
The detention bid did not bespeak the ‘independent satisfaction’ that the District Magistrate has arrived astatine nether Section 3 of the NSA, Ms. Angmo argued.
A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anajaria has fixed Ms. Angmo, represented by elder advocates Kapil Sibal, Vivek Tankha and advocator Sarvam Ritam Khare a week to record the amended petition.
The authorities, represented by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, was fixed 10 days to record a antagonistic affidavit to the amended petition. Ms. Angmo’s broadside was asked to taxable a rejoinder, if any, to the antagonistic affidavit wrong a week thereafter.
The tribunal listed the lawsuit connected November 24.
