The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred hearing on Gitanjali Angmo’s petition seeking her husband activist Sonam Wangchuk’s immediate release from detention under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, to October 29 after she sought time to amend her petition to add certain additional grounds for relief.

On behalf Angmo, senior advocate Kapil Sibal told a Bench of Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice NV Anjaria that the petitioner would file an application to amend the petition and that Wangchuk should be allowed to exchange some notes with his wife.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said he had no objection to the detainee sharing notes with his wife. Wangchuk had already been given a laptop as desired by him to prepare notes on the grounds of the challenge, he said.

Mehta, however, said the

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