His wife Geetanjali Angmo has reached the Supreme Court against the custody of Ladakh social activist Sonam Wangchuk. Gitanjali has filed a habeas corpus petition. He has demanded immediate release of Sonam.

The petition states that Sonam was organizing peaceful agitations in a democratic manner. He was wrongly accused. Now it is being asked to take him to Jodhpur under NSA, but the administration has not provided detention orders related to it. In such a situation, this custody is illegal. Sonam should be released.

Magsaysay Award -awarded environmental scientist Sonam Wangchuk is the main face of Ladakh’s movement for a long time. This movement is related to the demand for state status to Ladakh and special status under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. By joining the sixth schedule, the region gets constitutional guarantee like more rights on local resources, cultural protection and autonomous council.

The movement through picketing and hunger strike took a fierce form in the past. During this time, 4 people died due to police bullet. The Ladakh administration accused Sonam of working for foreign powers. He was detained on 26 September. He is accused of keeping contact with Pakistan’s intelligence agency, illegal donations from abroad.

Recently, Gitanjali Angmo told ABP News that a well -planned campaign is being carried out against Sonam and her organization Himalayan Institute of Alternative Ladakh (HIL). Its purpose is to weaken the demand for the sixth schedule. Sonam’s visit to Pakistan was for an environmental program. He has no connection with the Pakistani agent found in Ladakh.

The Ladakh unit of the Congress has said that all the negative publicity and false allegations against Sonam Wangchuk, the local people would not believe it and emphasized that the climate activists have become the most prominent and vocal face of the Ladakh movement.

The Congress said that if the government believes that the arrest of Wangchuk will help in restoring peace and harmony in the area, then it is making a big mistake. Wangchuk was detained under the National Security Act (NSA) on Friday (September 26, 2025) and has been kept in Jodhpur Jail in Rajasthan.

4 protesters killed in Ladakh violence

Two days ago, the performance of people demanding to give Ladakh full state status and include in the sixth schedule became violent and widespread violence spread in the Union Territory. Four protesters were killed and 90 others were injured in these clashes.

Congress’s Ladakh unit president Naveen Rigjin Jora said in a statement, “The Congress strongly condemns the unfair arrest of the popular worker. He had only one fault that he held Ladakh accountable for the election promise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to include Ladakh in the sixth schedule of the Constitution.

Wangchuk on the path of Mahatma Gandhi

In the statement, Nawang said, ‘He was also playing an important role in raising other demands of’ Leh Apex Body-Kargil Democratic Alliance ‘. These demands include full state status, different parliamentary seats for Leh and Kargil and recruitment in government jobs. According to the data of the Government of India, Ladakh has the second highest unemployment rate at graduation level.

He said that Wangchuk has done Satyagraha, fast and padyatra in the last five years, following the path of Mahatma Gandhi. He has become the most prominent and outspoken face of the Ladakh movement and hence knocking in the eyes of the central government.

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