Amritpal Singh has challenged his third consecutive NSA detention, claiming it violates constitutional rights and lacks credible evidence. The Supreme Court earlier allowed him to approach the High Court for urgent relief.
Lok Sabha member Amritpal Singh has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court challenging the legality of the third consecutive preventive detention order issued against him under the National Security Act (NSA).
Singh, who represents the Khadoor Sahib constituency in Punjab, has said that he has been kept in preventive custody since April 2023 only because authorities keep renewing detention orders one after another, without any real proof that he is a danger to national security or public order.
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This petition comes shortly after the Supreme Court, on 10 November, refused to examine his writ petition against the most recent NSA detention order.
However, the Supreme Court gave him the freedom to file a petition before the High Court and also requested the High Court to try and decide the matter within six weeks.
In his plea, Singh has argued that the latest detention order is arbitrary, illegal, and issued without proper authority.
He says it violates his fundamental rights under Articles 21 and 22 of the Constitution, which guarantee personal liberty and safeguards against unlawful detention.
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According to him, the government did not even give him the necessary documents or materials that were relied on to pass the detention order. Because of this, he says the entire process has become opaque, unfair, and unconstitutional.
Singh has pointed out that the State cannot justify preventive detention merely by mentioning pending FIRs, ongoing investigations, or saying that a person is an accused in some case.
Preventive detention, he argues, is allowed only when there is a clear, real, and immediate threat to public order. Anything based on assumptions, vague doubts, or unverified information cannot legally justify detention under the NSA.
The petition strongly emphasises that preventive detention laws cannot be used casually.
Singh’s argument is that his repeated detention orders are not based on fresh or credible material but on speculative and unfounded claims, which goes against the very purpose of preventive detention and violates constitutional protections.
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