All that the DGP had to say on it was that the police had recently apprehended a Pakistani intelligence operative who was reportedly monitoring Mr Wangchuk’s activities and “relaying information to handlers across the border”

xThe arrest and incarceration of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk in relation with the violence in Leh last week and the attempts by the Union Territory’s police to link him to hostile neighbouring countries betray the Union government’s total disconnect with the ground realities and the resultant ad hoc and untenable positions it so often takes when faced with real-life political crises.

All that the DGP had to say on it was that the police had recently apprehended a Pakistani intelligence operative who was reportedly monitoring Mr Wangchuk’s activities and “relayin

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