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Ex-SC judge to probe Leh riot
The New Indian Express Tirupati
|October 18, 2025
THE Union Home Ministry on Friday moved to address a key demand of the protesting Ladakh groups by announcing a judicial inquiry headed by a retired Supreme Court judge into the violent clashes of September 24 in Leh, which claimed four lives, including a 1999 Kargil war veteran.
The judicial probe, to be headed by Justice B S Chauhan, will investigate the 'circumstances leading to the serious law and order situation, the police action and the resultant unfortunate deaths of four people'. Retired district and sessions judge Mohan Singh Parihar will function as judicial secretary, while IAS officer Tushar Anand will be the administrati
This story is from the October 18, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Tirupati.
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