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Heavy security in Leh amid tensions and curfew following Wednesday protests.

Shutdown call by Leh Apex Body due to delay in talks on statehood demand and Sixth Schedule.

Four died, 80 were injured in protests demanding statehood amidst shutdown.

Leh town was enveloped in tense gloom amid curfew declared on Wednesday, hours after hundreds of protesters marching for statehood for the Union Territory of Ladakh had resorted to arson and violence. People in the town said on Thursday that they wanted the central government to fulfill their demand for statehood. They also sought measures to preserve the demographic structure of the region, seeking autonomy to legislate against jobs and the right to purchase property to non-locals.

It took minutes for the area to desc

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