India, March 12 -- Chandigarh

The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on a plea filed by jailed Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh challenging the April 2025 detention order under the National Security Act (NSA) by the Punjab government.

In the plea filed in December 2025, the Waris Punjab De chief had sought quashing of the third successive detention order passed against him on April 23, 2025, for one year. The radical Sikh leader was first detained in April 2023, along with his nine associates.

Amritpal had claimed the order rested solely on an FIR registered on October 9, 2024, regarding the murder of one of his old associates. There was not an "iota of evidence" against him linking him to the FIR, he claim...