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Sonam Wangchuk not given videos relied upon for detention: Wife

January 09, 2026 4:24 am

Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal appearing for Angmo told a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria that the detaining authorities had relied on four videos while issuing the detention order.

Sonam Wangchuk Supreme Court hearing National Security Act (NSA)

Tenor of my speech ending hunger strike, not to propagate violence but to quell it: Sonam Wangchuk tells Supreme Court

January 08, 2026 5:13 pm

Sonam Wangchuk detention news: Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal argued before the Supreme Court, challenging the detention of the climate activist Sonam Wangchuk.

Sonam Wangchuk News Highlights: 'Complete ground' for climate activist's detention not provided, wife argues in Supreme Court

January 08, 2026 7:23 pm

SC Hearing Sonam Wangchuk Detention Case Today News Highlights Updates: The climate activist was detained on September 26, 2025, under the National Security Act (NSA). The hearing against his detention is on now.

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SC to hear wife's plea challenging Sonam Wangchuk's detention on Thursday

January 07, 2026 4:21 pm

On November 24, the top court deferred the matter after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and the Union Territory of Ladakh, sought time to respond to the rejoinder filed by Angmo.

After 100 days of Sonam Wangchuk’s detention, his wife reflects on ‘challenging time’ and road ahead

100 days of Sonam Wangchuk’s detention: Wife reflects on ‘challenging time’, road ahead

January 06, 2026 6:56 pm

Gitanjali Angmo also acknowledged the ‘tremendous goodwill the people have for Sonam and for our institute and for us... the grassroots support, including in the jail’

The panel noted that HIAL is exemplary in its implementation of the NEP 2020, which calls for such experiential and project-based learning, community engagement, and integration of Indian Knowledge Systems (Image via hial.edu.in)

'UGC should consider granting recognition to HIAL': Parliament panel praises Sonam Wangchuk's education model as 'exemplary'

December 15, 2025 1:03 pm

The panel noted that HIAL is exemplary in its implementation of the NEP 2020, which calls for such experiential and project-based learning, community engagement, and integration of Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS).

Wangchuk was arrested on September 26 from Leh, and the NSA imposed on him, after the Union Territory administration accused him of instigating the violent protests days earlier demanding statehood for Ladakh and inclusion under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.

Can’t allow Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk to present arguments against NSA detention through video conferencing: Centre to SC

December 08, 2025 7:13 pm

Sonam Wangchuk was detained on September 26 under NSA for allegedly playing a role in instigating the violent protests in Ladakh on September 24, which led to four deaths in police firing.

5 biographies I want to read before the end of 2025

November 13, 2025 8:01 pm

I have set myself the ambitious goal of reading five biographies in two months. I share the titles on my list

wangchuk wife Gitanjali Angmo told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that his “continued detention…should be vitiated on account of the grave and incurable procedural lapses” as mandatory safeguards under the Act had not been complied with.

‘Calculated attempt to silence dissent’: Sonam Wangchuk’s wife tells SC in amended plea challenging his NSA detention

October 29, 2025 8:30 pm

Activist Sonam Wangchuk’s wife Gitanjali Angmo said the complete grounds of his detention under the National Security Act were only supplied to him after a delay of 28 days, in violation of the timeline prescribed under the Act.

Housing society meeting can be considered within 'public view': Maharashtra court finds retired govt employee, wife guilty of casteist remarks

October 15, 2025 2:02 pm

A special court under the SC/ST Act sentenced the convicts to six months in jail for passing casteist remarks against a Vikhroli housing society chairman in 2010.

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Authorities detain Sonam Wangchuk under National Security Act amid Ladakh protests

September 27, 2025 1:58 pm

Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk is held under the National Security Act amid escalating protests in Ladakh demanding statehood and Sixth Schedule protections