The administration in Ladakh on Thursday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the deaths of four persons in police firing during protests in Leh on September 24.

In an order, the district magistrate in Leh appointed Nubra Sub-Divisional Magistrate Mukul Beniwal as the inquiry officer to conduct the investigation, The New Indian Express reported.

The four persons – Jigmet Dorjey, Rinchen Dadul, Stanzin Namgail and Tsewang Tharchin – were killed in police firing 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 Sixth Schedule of the Constitution guarantees protection for land and

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