On October 2, Gitanjali J. Angmo, wife of the 59-year-old engineer-turned-teacher-turned-climate-activist Sonam Wangchuk, moved the Supreme Court seeking to know the whereabouts of her husband. Days ago, on September 26, Mr. Wangchuk was detained under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, from his village Uleytokpo by the Ladakh police and sent to the Jodhpur central jail.
The education reformer, who inspired the Hindi movie 3 Idiots (2009), has been labelled by the police as the “ring-leader” of the September 24 violence in Leh city that led to the death of four persons and resulted in injuries to around 150 people.
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