Sonam Wangchuks listening to LIVE: Supreme Court to listen to plea by Wangchuks spouse that his detention is mala fide

Senior advocate Sibal says the grounds of detention of Sonam Wangchuk aren’t shared with the household. Replying Mr. Sibal, Justice Aravind Kumar says a discover was issued.

Mr. Sibal mentioned that they will be unable to file a illustration with out the grounds.

Senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Vivek Tankha are set to signify Dr. Gitanjali Angmo, Sonam Wangchuk’s spouse.

She is current in court docket. A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. is Anjaria to listen to the petition.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta can also be current within the courtroom.

Sonam Wangchuk, who’s spearheading a mass agitation demanding Statehood and Sixth Schedule standing for the Union Territory of Ladakh, was detained below the provisions of the National Security Act (NSA) on Friday (September 26, 2025), two days after police motion in opposition to violent protests in Leh left 4 civilians lifeless. Internet companies in Leh have been suspended after his detention. 

After his detention, the Leh Apex Body (LAB) burdened that Mr. Wangchuk had not performed any position within the violence in Leh on Wednesday (September 24, 2025). The LAB plans to ship a delegation to Delhi on September 29, 2025 in a bid to renew talks on Statehood calls for with the Union authorities.

Sonam Wangchuk’s spouse, Gitanjali J. Angmo, on Wednesday (October 1, 2025) reached out to President Droupadi Murmu to hunt her intervention for the discharge of the local weather activist, who has been lodged in Jodhpur jail in Rajasthan since being taken into custody following the September 24 violent clashes in Ladakh. 

In a three-page letter addressed to the president, Mr. Wangchuk’s spouse alleged “witchhunt” in opposition to her husband for espousing the reason for the individuals over the previous 4 years and mentioned she is totally unaware about her husband’s situation.

Opposition events throughout the nation on Saturday (September 27, 2025) stepped up their criticism of the Union authorities’s dealing with of the continued disaster in Ladakh and the detention of local weather activist Sonam Wangchuk below provisions of the National Security Act. 

While Congress leaders known as the federal government’s dealing with of the state of affairs “pathetic” and demanded a judicial inquiry into the deaths of protesters on September 24, leaders of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and the Aam Aadmi Party known as Mr. Wangchuk a “patriot”, and sought his launch.

Detained engineer-turned-activist Sonam Wangchuk has appealed for an unbiased judicial inquiry into the killing of 4 civilians within the September 24 protests, in response to a letter launched from the Jodhpur jail on Sunday (October 5, 2025). 

“My heartfelt condolences to the households of these individuals who misplaced their lives and my prayers with people who find themselves injured and are arrested. There ought to be an unbiased judicial Inquiry into the killing of our 4 individuals and, except that’s finished, I’m ready to remain in jail,” Mr. Wangchuk mentioned, within the purported letter from the jail.

The Supreme Court will likely be listening to a habeas corpus petition filed by local weather activist Sonam Wangchuk’s spouse, Dr. Gitanjali J. Angmo, in opposition to the preventive detention of her husband below the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, following violent protests on September 24 in Leh. 

A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria would hear the plea on the day of reopening of the highest court docket after the week-long Dussehra trip.