All they want for Deepavali is for their husbands to return home.

The wives of Sosma detainees S. Chandru, V. Suresh Kumar and Gadek assemblyman G. Saminathan have been staging sit-ins in front of the Bukit Aman police headquarters since Monday.

The three men are among 12 arrested on October 10 and 12 over alleged links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE.