Overview

• Police detained Wangchuk in Leh on Friday before a planned press briefing, and authorities have not disclosed the charges.
• Curfew continues in Leh and Kargil, mobile internet is suspended in Leh, and public gatherings are restricted to five people.
• Government and security sources defend the detention by citing references in his speeches to foreign protest movements and by framing his activism near the China frontier as a national‑security risk.
• Administrative pressure has escalated with SECMOL’s FCRA license revoked, a CBI inquiry opened, and a land lease for his HAIL institute canceled.
• Political reaction is sharply critical, with Congress saying he was held under the National Security Act and calling it a diversion from governance failures, while LAB/KDA leaders and Ladakh’s MP describe him as non‑violent and warn the arrest could derail talks.