The Supreme Court will on Monday take up Ladakh climate activist Sonam Wangchuk’s wife Gitanjali Angmo’s petition seeking his immediate release from detention under the National Security Act (NSA).

Angmo’s petition is listed for hearing before a Bench of Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice NV Anjaria on October 6.

Detained on September 26 under Section 3(2) of the NSA two days after the September 24 violent clashes between protesters demanding statehood and Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh and the police, Wangchuk was lodged in Jodhpur jail in Rajasthan.

Four people had died and 90 others were injured in the clashes in the newly created Union territory of Ladakh.

Terming it “illegal, arbitrary, and unconstitutional”, Angmo has contended that the detention order violated her husband’s fun

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