Dr.Gitanjali Angmo has filed an amendment application before the Supreme Court, raising additional grounds challenging the detention of her husband and Ladakh social activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been detained under the National Security Act, 1980, after the recent Ladakh protests turned violent.

She has submitted that the detention order and grounds of detention are ex facie unsustainable in law as they are premised upon irrelevant grounds, stale FIRs, extraneous material, self-serving statements, and suppression of information.

Detention based on stale FIRs, bears no nexus with Wangchuk

As per her plea, the grounds of detention rely upon five FIRs, out of which three date back to more than 1 year and in which there is either no allegation against Wangchuk.

The fifth FIR, dating

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