Sonam Wangchuks spouse writes to President Murmu for his launch, seeks intervention on witch-hunt

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.

“We request for an unconditional launch of Wangchuk, an individual who can by no means be a menace to anybody, go away alone his Nation. He has devoted his life to serve the courageous sons of soil of Ladakh and stands in solidarity with the Indian Army in defence of our nice nation,” Ms. Angmo mentioned within the illustration forwarded via deputy commissioner, Leh.

Mr. Wangchuk was detained underneath National Security Act (NSA) on September 26, two days after violent clashes in Leh city left 4 individuals useless and scores of others injured. The violence broke out in the course of the protests in assist of the calls for, together with statehood for Ladakh and the the area’s inclusion in Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.

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She termed Mr. Wangchuk’s detention as “illegal” and mentioned she was knowledgeable of this by a station home officer.

“I used to be additionally informed the officer would clarify to me my authorized rights. Even that has not been achieved until immediately. I’m shocked and devastated,” she mentioned, including that whereas being taken away, he was not even allowed to take his garments.

“I’m not conscious whether or not he has been given recent garments and primary facilities together with medicines that he wants every day, particularly after his quick of 15 days in September that has weakened him bodily.”

Calling the remedy “deplorable”, she mentioned Mr. Wangchuk had been talking about local weather change, instructional reforms, and grassroots innovation, and elevating his voice for the upliftment of a backward tribal belt that’s ecologically fragile in a peaceable Gandhian method for the final 4 years.

“To deal with the son of the soil of Ladakh so shabbily is not only a sin however a strategic error for constructing sturdy borders with solidarity and peaceable coexistence,” she mentioned whereas highlighting that Mr. Wangchuk had been constructing shelters for the Indian Army officers and jawans.

Asking if it was a sin to battle in opposition to reckless and unchecked growth actions in an ecologically fragile space of Ladakh, she mentioned, “This nation has learnt its classes from its experiences from Uttarakhand, Himachal and the North East of late. You, being from a tribal group background, would perceive the emotions of the individuals of Ladakh higher than anybody else.”

Ms. Angmo, who’s the founder and chief govt officer of the Himalayan Institute of Alternative Learning (HIAL), additionally acknowledged that she was put underneath CRPF surveillance and referred to a communication acquired from in-charge of the particular investigation group, in search of particulars of scholars and employees residing at HIAL.

She additionally mentioned that two members of the institute have been taken into custody three days in the past.