Overview

• The Lieutenant Governor’s office said the Union Territory is peaceful with schools, offices and markets reopened.
• Leh Apex Body and Kargil Democratic Alliance pulled out of a scheduled High-Powered Committee meeting, insisting on a judicial inquiry into the four deaths and the release of detainees.
• Prohibitory orders against gatherings remain in force and mobile internet services are still suspended, which local leaders cite as evidence that normalcy has not returned.
• Officials said about 30 of roughly 70 detained youths have been released, with the remainder in judicial custody to be handled per court orders.
• The September 24 agitation for statehood and Sixth Schedule protections turned deadly in Leh, and LAB leaders now also allege harassment of village headmen who relayed news of their earlier hunger strike.