Overview

• Four protesters were killed on September 24 when police opened fire during demonstrations led by the Leh Apex Body for Ladakh’s statehood and Sixth Schedule protections.
• Two victims were cremated on Sunday, with Tsewang Tharchin and another scheduled for cremation on Monday as mourners gathered in his home village of Saboo.
• Relatives allege baton marks on Tharchin’s body and question who ordered the firing and why non-lethal crowd-control options were not used.
• Curfew in Leh continued into a sixth day, and Lt Governor Kavinder Gupta was set to review the security situation as authorities reported over 150 injuries and more than 60 detentions.
• Congress leader Jairam Ramesh called the killing a matter of anguish and outrage, while activist Sonam Wangchuk remained detained under the National Security Act in Jodhpur jail.