Radical Sikh preacher and MP Amritpal Singh, who’s lodged in a jail in Assam’s Dibrugarh district underneath the Nationwide Safety Act, on Friday moved the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket searching for instructions for quashing of total proceedings towards him underneath the act, together with detention.
The petitioner submitted within the excessive court docket that his detention is “unlawful” and, due to this fact, it’s liable to be put aside.
He talked about that “it serves no function in any respect besides to punish the petitioner for being vocal towards the state and the Central governments on main political points, which is a democratic proper of each citizen of this nation”.
“…The grounds of detention are based totally on social media posts uploaded by totally different individuals internationally, which have hardly any influence within the state of Punjab and probably the safety of the state of India can’t be so fragile as to be impacted by social media posts,” Singh said within the petition.
It additionally claimed that “the petitioner’s proper to life and liberty has been fully taken away in an uncommon and merciless method by not solely invoking preventive detention Act for multiple yr, but additionally detaining him away from his house state, house, pals..making it unduly harsh and vindictive as a result of the gap between his house and state of detention is sort of 2,600 km…”.
Singh, who heads the ‘Waris Punjab De’ outfit and has styled himself after slain Khalistani militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, was jailed together with 9 of his associates underneath the NSA.
He was arrested in Moga’s Rode village after he and his supporters on February 23 final yr barged into the Ajnala police station breaking barricades, brandishing swords and weapons, and clashed with police personnel in an try and free one in all his aides from custody.
Singh was elected as MP from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib constituency within the lately performed Lok Sabha elections. Earlier this month, he was flown to Delhi on a four-day custody parole for taking oath as a member of parliament.
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