Senior politician Priyanka Chaturvedi has strongly criticized the legal action taken against engineer and education reform advocate Sonam Wangchuk, calling it “wrong” and urging the government to listen to his demands. Chaturvedi said public debate and democratic engagement must be protected and that suppressing voices through arrests undermines democratic principles. Chaturvedi’s comments came after Wangchuk.
New Delhi: Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk on Tuesday said the government’s willingness to hold “constructive and meaningful dialogue” was the key objective of his movement. Addressing the media here in his first public comments after being released from detention under the National Security Act, Wangchuk said the offer for dialogue was a positive development and.
Mumbai: Samajwadi Party (SP) President, Akhilesh Yadav, said on Saturday that Ladakh-based climate activist and engineer, Sonam Wangchchuk, should not have been sent to jail in the first place, after the latter’s detention was revoked by the Centre. Wangchuk, was released from the Jodhpur Central Jail later in the day after the Ministry of Home.
The Union Government has revoked the preventive detention of climate activist and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk under the National Security Act (NSA), paving the way for his release from jail after nearly five months of incarceration. The decision was announced on March 14 by the Ministry of Home Affairs, which confirmed that Wangchuk’s detention order.
During the hearing, the Justice Aravind Kumar-led bench observed that Wangchuk had been in custody since September 26, 2025, and that the medical reports placed before the apex court indicated his health was "certainly not very good".
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to resume hearing, on Monday, a plea filed by Gitanjali J. Angmo, the wife of Sonam Wangchuk, challenging the detention of the Leh-based climate activist. Bench to Hear Matter on December 8 As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a bench of Justices.
Sibal informed the court that the Central government had since furnished the grounds of detention to Wangchuk, necessitating modifications to the original plea
