Chandigarh, Dec. 9 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday sought a response from the Punjab government on a plea from Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh seeking quashing of the third successive detention order passed against him on April 17 under the National Security Act (NSA). The petition was taken up by the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry and has sought a response by January 27 on the plea, which claims detention is "arbitrary, void of jurisdiction and violative of constitutional safeguards under Articles 21 and 22". The radical Sikh leader was initially detained in April 2023 along with his nine associates. Fresh detention orders were passed against all of them in March-April 2024, but in April 2025, while his associates were brought back from Dibrugarh, a fresh order of one-year detention was passed against Amritpal Singh. He had challenged detention orders in 2023 and 2024 as well. But the petition became infructuous. The Khadoor Sahib MP claims he has remained under preventive detention since April 2023 despite the absence of any "supporting material for continued incarceration". Amritpal Singh has rejected the allegations that he was associated with anti-national elements and claims such imputations are "unsupported by any material". The fresh detention order rests solely on an FIR registered on October 9, 2024, regarding the murder of one of his old associates, the plea said, adding that his name did not appear in the initial FIR and was nominatedsubsequently....