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The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026) gave itself a day’s clip to alteration Justice P.B. Varale, the puisne justice connected the Division Bench headed by Justice Aravind Kumar, to work the lawsuit records of a situation launched by Dr. Gitanjali J. Angmo against the Centre for detaining her hubby and clime activistic Sonam Wangchuk nether the National Security Act.
The lawsuit was earlier heard by a Bench of Justices Kumar and NV Anjaria. However, the Bench operation changed station the wintertime vacations with Justice Varale replacing Justice Anjaria.
Mr. Wangchuk was detained nether the National Security Act (NSA), 1980 pursuing convulsive protests connected September 24 successful Leh. He was detained connected September 26 and shifted to the Jodhpur Central Jail successful Rajasthan.
Ms. Angmo alleged the Ministry of Home Affairs had nursed “strong reservations” astir Mr. Wangchuk’s inclusion successful the High Powered Committee delegation of Apex Body Leh and Kargil Democratic Alliance formed to held talks with the authorities connected issues of Statehood and Sixth Schedule safeguards for Ladakh.
She has denied that Mr. Wangchuk utilized the level of protestation to people the government. She accused the detaining authorization of “malicious intent”.
“The brazen allegation that Mr. Sonam Wangchuk has acted arsenic main provocateur successful the convulsive protestation that took spot connected 24 September 2025 is false, malicious and fabricated and wholly contrary to the worldly connected record… On the contrary, Mr. Sonam Wangchuk has made important contributions successful enactment of nationalist information and the Armed Forces,” Ms. Angmo argued.
Ms. Angmo, represented by elder advocates Kapil Sibal, Vivek Tankha and advocator Sarvam Ritam Khare, has said the implicit grounds of detention were shared with Mr. Wangchuk aft a “flagrant delay” of 28 days contempt his repeated representations to his detainers. She submitted that Section 8 of the NSA required the detaining authorization to stock the implicit reasons for detention wrong 10 days to supply the detenue the “earliest accidental to marque an effectual practice against the bid to the due government”.
