Sonam Wangchuk’s wife moves Supreme Court against his detention under NSA

Gitanjali J Angmo, activist Sonam Wangchuk’s wife, has filed a petition before the Supreme Court challenging his detention under the National Security Act.

Angmo filed the habeas corpus petition seeking Wangchuk’s immediate release on Thursday. A habeas corpus is a petition through which a court can order the authorities to produce a person before it to verify if they have been lawfully detained.

The Supreme Court is currently on Dussehra vacation and will reopen on Monday.

Wangchuk was arrested in Leh on September 26, two days after four persons were killed in police firing during protests seeking statehood for Ladakh. He was later taken to a jail in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur.

The police firing and violence broke out on September 24 during protests demanding statehood for Ladakh and its inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. Demonstrators clashed with and threw stones at the police, and set fire to the Bharatiya Janata Party office and a police vehicle.

The Union government has claimed that the violence was incited by Wangchuk’s “provocative statements”.

Angmo, the founder and chief executive officer of Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh, in a social media post on Friday said she has had no contact with her husband since his arrest a week ago.

“Still I have no information about Sonam Wangchuk’s health, the condition he is in nor the grounds of...

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