It also sought immediate access to the detenue, and quashing of the preventive detention order. The plea alleged that Wangchuk’s detention was “illegal, arbitrary, and unconstitutional”, violating the fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 14, 19, 21 and 22 of the Constitution. Wangchuk’s detention has also inflicted severe mental pain and anguish on the people of Ladakh, who revere him as their leader, it added. “Direct respondents to ensure that Sonam Wangchuk is provided with his medicines, clothes, food and other basic necessities forthwith,” the plea said. It also sought a direction to the authorities to place before the top court “the order of detention along with grounds of detention and all records pertaining thereto”.