The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, the Ladakh administration, and the Jodhpur jail authorities on a plea filed by Gitanjali Angmo, wife of Ladakhi education reformer and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, challenging his preventive detention under the National Security Act (NSA).

The bench comprising Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria heard senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Angmo, who urged the court to direct authorities to furnish the grounds of detention to the detainee’s family.

“Can the grounds of detention be supplied to us as well?” Sibal asked, stressing that the family had not been given access to the detention order or its reasoning, despite repeated requests.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Union government, informed the cou

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