Leh: The Leh Apex Body (LAB) on Thursday rejected the magisterial probe ordered by the UT administration to inquire into the September 24 law and order situation in the town.

The LAB has insisted that only a high-level judicial probe can establish the responsibility for the deaths of civilians in the firing on September 24.

LAB co-chairman Chering Dorjey has dismissed the inquiry led by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Nubra.

“We have maintained from day one that there should be a judicial inquiry into the killings of Ladakhi people. We want to know who ordered the firing on civilians without any warning. We don’t accept the magisterial inquiry and we reject it,” Dorjey told reporters.

He also rejected the possibility of any talks with the Central government unless what he called the

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