NEW DELHI: Gitanjali J Angmo, wife of renowned climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, 52, has told the Supreme Court in her amended application that his detention under the National Security Act (NSA) was not based on genuine concerns of public order or security, but suffers from “gross illegality and arbitrariness”.

“The detention order suffers from gross illegality and arbitrariness, as it relies upon stale, irrelevant, and extraneous FIRs. Out of the five FIRs relied upon, three pertain to the year 2024, bearing no proximate, live, or rational nexus to the detention of Wangchuk in September 2025. Moreover, four out of five of the FIRs, out of which three are registered against 'unknown persons', do not name Wangchuk. There is thus no clear, live, proximate, or intelligible connection between

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