NEW DELHI, Dec 7: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a plea filed by Gitanjali J. Angmo, wife of jailed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, challenging his detention under the National Security Act (NSA) as “illegal and arbitrary, violating his fundamental rights.”

A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N. V. Anjaria is likely to hear the matter. On November 24, the top court had deferred the hearing after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre and the UT of Ladakh, sought time to respond to Angmo’s rejoinder.

The amended plea, filed on October 29, contends that Wangchuk’s detention “is founded upon stale FIRs, vague imputations, and speculative assertions, lacking any live or proximate connection to the purported grounds of detention” and is therefore legally and factual

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