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 and reliefs.

On behalf Angmo, senior advocate Kapil Sibal told a Bench of Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice NV Anjaria that the petitioner wanted to amend her petition to add certain additional grounds and reliefs.

Sibl said the petitioner will 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 a

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