Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh moves court, seeks quashing of NSA proceedings

Chandigarh, July 19

Confined in Dibrugarh Central Jail in Assam, Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh today moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking directions for quashing, among other things, “entire proceedings initiated against him under the National Security Act, including the detention orders”.

Amritpal Singh said his detention under the National Security Act was illegal and as such liable to be set aside. His right to life and liberty had been taken away completely in “an unusual and cruel manner by not only invoking the preventive detention Act for more than a year, but also by detaining him away from the Punjab”.

“It serves no purpose whatsoever except to punish the petitioner for being vocal against the state and the Central government on major political issues, which is a democratic right of every citizen of this country,” he added.

“The grounds of detention are primarily based on social media posts uploaded by different persons across the world, which have hardly any impact in the State of Punjab and possibly the security of the State of India cannot be so fragile as to be impacted by social media posts.”

He added the Amritsar District Magistrate could not pass any orders “with respect to the security of India under the provisions of the National Security Act and only the Central government or the State government could issue the same.”