Chandigarh, Feb. 19 -- The Punjab government on Wednesday told the Punjab and Haryana high court that a hit list of those critical to jailed Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh and his "links with dreaded terrorists" were fresh grounds for the April 2025 detention order under the National Security Act.

The government response was filed in response to the plea from the Waris Punjab De chief, filed in December 2025, seeking 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.

Senior advocate Anupam Gupta told the high court that the "gravity and enormity of the threat posed by the hit list" and his "close i...