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Ladakh medication connected Thursday (October 2, 2025) ordered a magisterial enquiry into the violent protestation that took spot connected September 24 extracurricular the BJP bureau successful Leh town, which led to the decease of 4 people.
Violent protests erupted extracurricular the BJP bureau successful Leh municipality during a 35-day hunger onslaught called by Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) implicit the Centre’s hold to clasp “result-oriented” talks implicit respective long-pending demands, including Statehood and granting Sixth Schedule presumption to the region.
The protesters, mostly youth, torched the BJP bureau and vandalised the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) premises.
The enquiry into the “serious instrumentality and bid situation” volition beryllium led by IAS serviceman Mukul Beniwal, Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Nubra.
The bid follows persistent request by civilian nine groups — Leh Apex Body (LAB) and the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) — for a judicial enquiry into the decease of 4 civilians, including a Kargil warfare veteran, who were killed successful constabulary enactment during convulsive protests connected September 24, 2025 successful Leh metropolis demanding law safeguards for the region.
When the protestation happened, clime activistic Sonam Wangchuk and galore different residents of Ladakh had been connected a hunger onslaught since September 10, 2025 demanding law safeguards for the portion bordering China, which was converted into a Union Territory successful 2019.
Ladakh Lieutenant-Governor Kavinder Gupta imposed a curfew successful Ladakh’s Leh municipality connected September 24, 2025 arsenic a precautionary measure, which was aboriginal relaxed connected September 30.
Mr. Wangchuk was arrested on September 27, 2025 nether the National Security Act (NSA).
