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February 11, 2026, 04:32 PM - 3 min read
A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and PB Varale made the observation while hearing the plea moved by Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali J Angmo against his preventive detention.Opposing the plea, Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj submitted that Wangchuk had warned that a violent agitation, akin to what occurred in Nepal, could take place in Ladakh and that youth were expressing doubts in the effectiveness of peaceful methods.
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February 4, 2026, 05:51 PM - 3 min read
A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and PB Varale was hearing the plea moved by Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali J Angmo against his preventive detention. The Court told Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj, appearing for the Centre,The health condition of Wangchuk is stated to be ‘not good’.
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February 3, 2026, 04:47 PM - 3 min read
The submission was made by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta before a Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and PB Varale while opposing a plea challenging his detention."I am saying that he (Wangchuk) has been given a fair treatment," the SG added.However, he also contended that because of the nature of the power under NSA, a certain leeway is given to the statutory authority.
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January 18, 2026, 04:31 PM - 3 min read
Wangchuk, a Magsaysay Award-winning climate activist and educator, was detained under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) on September 26, two days after protests demanding statehood and Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh left four people dead and 90 injured in the Union territory, and was taken to Jodhpur jail.
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November 24, 2025, 06:00 PM - 3 min read
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to December 8 the hearing on a plea filed by the wife of jailed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, terming his detention under National Security Act . His detention has been termed as “illegal, and an arbitrary exercise violating his fundamental rights”, in the plea filed by his wife Gitanjali Wangchuk.
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October 6, 2025, 11:40 AM - 2 min read
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Union government on a habeas corpus petition filed by Gitanjali Angmo, wife of Ladakh-based activist Sonam Wangchuk, challenging his detention under the National Security Act (NSA) following last month’s violence in Leh.
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October 3, 2025, 09:39 AM - 4 min read
Gitanjali Angmo, wife of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been detained under the NSA, has said that she is yet to get a copy of the detention order, which was in violation of the rules
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September 28, 2025, 08:11 PM - 4 min read
Two days after Sonam Wangchuk was jailed under NSA, his wife Gitanjali Angmo has trashed allegations of “Pakistan link” and financial irregularities against him. Terming the charge that Wangchuk incited the violence in Leh as “misplaced”, she claimed that he has been protesting in the “most Gandhian way possible” and the “situation escalated” on September 24 due to the actions of the CRPF.
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September 11, 2025, 10:33 AM - 4 min read
Shamas Din Malik, father of detained Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Doda, Mehraj Malik, has made an emotional appeal for his son’s release after he was booked under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978, on grounds that his activities were prejudicial to the maintenance of public order.
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