The petitions of Amritpal Singh, Sarabjit Singh Kalsi, Kulwant Singh and Gurinder Pal Singh Aujla were heard before a bench of Chief Justice and Justice Sumit Goel.
Meanwhile, senior advocate Anupam Gupta, appearing for the Punjab government, told the court that the current period of the National Security Act imposed on Amritpal Singh has expired and a new NSA will be imposed on him. He also said that the NSA imposed on the other petitioners has already expired.
The court asked Amritpal Singh’s lawyer whether he wanted to challenge the new NSA, to which he said that he had not received any instructions in this regard yet. After this, the court declared the petitions of Kulwant Singh Dhillon and Gurinder Pal Singh Aujla ineffective. With this, Gurinder Pal Singh Aujla’s petition for transfer of jail also came to an end as he has already been shifted to Central Jail Patiala. The lawyers of Amritpal Singh and Sarabjit Singh Kalsi sought time to argue the merits of the case, which the court accepted and adjourned the matter till July 2025. Amritpal’s lawyer told the court that no new reasons have been given to Amritpal Singh for the third detention order under the National Security Act yet. His lawyer told the court that at present he has no direction to challenge the third detention order.
Bains also said that the court will have to decide whether a person can be detained on the basis of internet media posts. Initially, Amritpal and his nine associates were detained under the NSA. Although the state government had lifted the NSA against his associates in March and April, Amritpal’s detention was extended for a third year.
After this, youth associated with Bhai Amritpal Singh are being targeted. Punjab politics has heated up due to a chat that went viral under the banner of the Akali Dal Moga organization of Waris Punjab. Now Punjab Police has also come into action mode in this matter. Taking serious steps, Moga Police has registered a case under UAPA and other legal sections in the case of a chat that went viral about Ravneet Bittu ‘driving a car’ from a WhatsApp group created in the name of Akali Dal Moga. Two of them have been detained. One of the arrested people is from Moga and the other is from Khanna. According to DIG Ashwani Kapoor, this chat went viral yesterday, in which talks were made about harming several political leaders, such as Bikram Majithia and Ravneet Bittu etc. In these chats, protests were made against the arrest of Amritpal Singh, and serious insinuations were made against various leaders. The police have arrested two suspects and the identification of others is underway. DIG Kapoor said that there were about 25-30 people in the group, many of whom are still unidentified. Action is being taken against them under UAPA. As soon as the news came out that the NSA imposed on Amritpal Singh was being extended. Since then, a WhatsApp group chat went viral on social media. In it, there was talk of attacking Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu, Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia and the country’s Home Minister Amit Shah. Ravneet Singh Bittu had raised questions in this matter. He said that these people are trying to spoil the atmosphere. Then Majithia raised questions in this matter. He said that this incident took place after the accused were shifted to Dibrugarh jail in Punjab. Majithia demanded that the entire matter be investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). He announced that he would hand over all the evidence available to him to the Central Government because the Punjab Police has been politicized and the Punjab Police cannot be trusted to investigate Amritpal Singh and his gang.
We believe that the unjustified extension of Bhai Amritpal Singh’s detention for another year clearly shows that the governments are violating human rights by adopting illegal methods in the affairs of Sikhs. If the government machinery is doing this, then it can be easily estimated what is happening to ordinary Sikhs in Punjab. No NSA is imposed against those demanding a Hindu Rashtra, but the imprisoned Sikhs who are struggling for Sikh rights are not being released despite having completed more than double their sentences, which is the biggest injustice. Arrests of youth under black laws are wrong action. When injustice is done, provocation arises. The government should consider this issue with compassion instead of using the law of cane.
