Sonam Wangchuk Hearing News Updates: Centre says Wangchuk wants Ladakh to become Nepal or Bangladesh

Mehta: My learned friend said this is only an allegory. This is a figure of speech. You don't use this kind of speech for our mothers.

Mehta: He says that Sita Ji ko bazar mai bechne ke liye khada kiya

Mehta: The DM would be guilty of dereliction of duty if he is not taking cognizance of such serious things having inbuilt sensitivity in the region.

Mehta: He is sitting in a region which has a common border with Pakistan and China and says Indian Army not my army is weak because of Ladakh scouts, Sikh regiments and Gorkha regiment. Its false

Mehta: When you share a border with China and you talk about referendums and plebiscites, there are talks of Tunisia, Arab Spring etc etc.

Mehta: Giving example of Arab uprising is an invitation to indulge into a kind of Civil war with bloodbath

Mehta: Ladakh is essential for the supply chain to our forces in our border. The standstill and everything to be brought down to a grinding halt is required to be prevented

Mehta: Do you know the concept of 'Arab Spring'? This is what he is referring to. There was a bloodbath and the countries of six countries were overthrown.

Mehta: What will happen if I am sent to jail, he said? There will be events like Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This is happening in a border area, a very sensitive border.

Mehta: He said that presence of armed personnel is making the youth angry and the outcome will be similar that of Nepal.

Mehta: Then Mahatma Gandhi comes in the speech. Illustration of Mahatma Gandhi is a complete facade.

Mehta: He says riot like situation in Nepal. He wants them to do what was happening in Nepal.

Mehta: What the DM is supposed to see is taking the speech in holistic manner. I have prepared a note for the honorable court to consider. kindly have a look at the speeches. Please bear in mind that the DM is dealing with the situation where threshold of tolerance different.

Mahatma Gandhi in the beginning and Gandhiji in the end.

Mehta: It is the DM who is the judge of the situation because he knows several circumstances which we may not be knowing.

Mehta: The basis for the detention is supplied by the officials. Reads another judgment about NSA detention.

Bench: What Sibal has canvassed is you cannot arrive at a satisfaction on the basis of borrowed material.

Mehta: That argument is inherently fallacious.

He mentions cases of NSA. Reads the judgment.

Some of the submissions of my learned friend Mr Sibal, I will be contesting.

The petitioner's allegations that four videos were not supplied to him. This is incorrect. When the order of the detention was served upon the detainee, it took four house. The officials went to him and shows him every page and asks him if he was satisfied. He replied in affirmative.

Mehta: My submission would be in 5 parts

Solicitor General Mehta is appearing for the Centre and the Union Territory of Ladakh.

A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and Prasanna B Varale assembles.