India, Jan. 26 -- Sonam Wangchuk's continued detention since September 26, 2025, is a matter of serious concern. The trajectory of the habeas corpus case filed by his wife, Gitanjali Angmo, before the Supreme Court poses several significant questions that reveal the nature of the legal process in India, touching on personal liberty. The inadequacy of resorting to conventional legal tools alone while criticising such juridical events leads to an incomplete understanding of the process. A discourse over the text of the judgments or orders, separating it from their political context, turns deceptive, as it assumes that legal processes are intrinsically neutral and unconnected with the contemporality of politics.

The recent pronouncement of ...