Overview

• Wife Gitanjali J. Angmo met Sonam Wangchuk in Jodhpur Central Jail late Tuesday for the first time since his September 26 detention and said his spirit remains undaunted.
• Angmo said she obtained the NSA detention order during the visit and will contest it, thanking supporters in a post after meeting him with legal counsel.
• Her Supreme Court petition challenging the preventive detention has drawn notice to the Centre and Ladakh administration, with the case listed for October 14.
• Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Court the grounds of detention were served to Wangchuk, not his family, as the bench directed medical attention per prison rules.
• Wangchuk was held under the National Security Act two days after Leh unrest that killed four and injured about 90, and he was transferred over 1,000 km from Ladakh to Jodhpur as regional bodies press for an independent probe and pause talks with the Centre.