NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday strongly opposed local weather activist Sonam Wangchuk’s request to seem earlier than the Supreme Court docket through video conferencing from Jodhpur jail within the case associated to his detention below the Nationwide Safety Act (NSA).
Through the listening to, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Wangchuk’s spouse Gitanjali J Angmo, requested that the 52-year-old activist be allowed to affix the proceedings through video from jail. Solicitor Normal Tushar Mehta, showing for the Centre, opposed the request, saying, “We must give the identical remedy to all convicts throughout the nation.”
The Supreme Court docket, nevertheless, didn’t go any order on the request and adjourned the matter to December 15. The 2-judge bench, headed by Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria, is listening to a plea filed by Angmo alleging that Wangchuk’s detention was unlawful and arbitrary, violating his elementary rights. On October 29, the court docket had sought responses from the Centre and the Ladakh administration on her amended plea.
In her petition, Angmo claimed that her husband’s detention was “not primarily based on real considerations of public order or safety” and described it as “a calculated try to silence Wangchuk’s proper to dissent.” She argued that the detention order relied on “stale, irrelevant, and extraneous FIRs,” noting that three of the 5 FIRs cited had been from 2024 and bore no direct connection to his detention in September 2025.
She additional acknowledged that 4 of the 5 FIRs, three of which had been registered in opposition to “unknown individuals,” didn’t identify Wangchuk, and thus there was “no clear, dwell, proximate, or intelligible connection” between the FIRs and his preventive detention below the NSA.
