SONAM WANGCHUK CASE: SC ASKS CENTRE TO CONSIDER SHARING DETENTION GROUNDS WITH ACTIVIST'S WIFE, GOVT SAYS HER PLEA WAS TO CREATE ‘EMOTIVE ATMOSPHERE'

Issuing notice to the Centre and the Ladakh administration, the Supreme Court Bench said "something has been done" for now, and posted the case for hearing next on October 14

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The Supreme Court on Monday (October 6, 2025) orally asked the Union government to consider sharing the grounds of preventive detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk with his wife, Dr. Gitanjali Angmo, even as the Centre said her habeas corpus plea was simply a ruse to create an "emotive atmosphere".

Mr. Wangchuk was detained under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, following violent protests on September 24 in Leh. Ms. Angmo had asked the apex court to direct the detaining authorities to produce Mr. Wangchuk in court. She submitted that it had been 10 days since Mr. Wangchuk was reported to be detained at Jodhpur in Rajasthan on September 26. She said there was no information about the grounds of his detention or about the state of his health.

Issuing notice to the Centre and the Ladakh administration, a Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria said "something has been done" for now. It posted the case for hearing next on October 14.