New Delhi: The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a petition filed by Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh challenging his continued detention under the National Security Act (NSA), while he remains lodged in Assam’s high-security Dibrugarh Central Jail.

According to the causelist published on the apex court’s website, a Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria will take up the matter on November 10. The plea argued that restraining an elected Member of Parliament from performing his constitutional duties constituted a violation of his fundamental rights as well as the collective rights of his electorate.

Amritpal Singh, the chief of ‘Waris Punjab De’, was arrested on March 18, 2023, following a crackdown, and subsequently shifted to Dibrugarh jail under NSA provision

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