Chandigarh, April 23 -- The Punjab government on Tuesday told the Punjab and Haryana high court that a fresh detention order under the National Security Act (NSA) has been passed against the Khadoor Sahib MP, and the grounds for the same would be supplied to him on Wednesday.

Senior advocate Anupam Gupta told the high court bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sumeet Goel that the fresh detention order was passed by the Amritsar district magistrate on April 17 and given to the MP on April 18.

"His detention ends on April 22. Hence, the grounds for his fresh detention order are to be provided to him, an exercise to be carried out by the government on April 23," he said. Gupta has been specially appointed by the state government ...