In a related hearing, the bench of Justices Sundar and Sakthivel also issued notice to the NIA on a Habeas Corpus petition filed by Abbas’ kin claiming that the lawyers’ arrest and his subsequent remand to custody (the remand order by the lower court does not clarify if Abbas has been sent to police or to judicial custody but merely remands him till June 22), were illegal.
The NIA had objected to the Habeas Corpus petition on grounds of maintainability, saying that an objection to remand cannot be made through a plea of Habeas Corpus.
The bench, however, said that it was of the prima facie view that the Habeas Corpus plea could be kept for hearing at the stage of admission and directed the High Court registry to number and list it for hearing.
Source: Barandbench
