The Ladakh administration on Saturday (October 18, 2025) erected barricades, imposed restrictions, and restrained the movement of members of the Leh Apex Body (LAB), thwarting a scheduled “peaceful march” held to express solidarity with the deaths that occurred during the September 24 protests.
Meanwhile, hundreds of locals held a protest march in Kargil in spite of the restrictions imposed under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita.
“Barricades were set up in the morning on one side of my residence, and police deployment on the other. The Leh administration’s move to impose restrictions was illegal and unfortunate,” Chering Dorjay Lakruk, president of the Ladakh Buddhist Association president, and co-chairperson of the Ladakh Apex Body, said.
The Ladakh administration on Friday evening announced the reimposition of prohibitory restrictions under Section 163, banning the assembly of more than four persons, “following reports of potential threats to public peace and order in the area”. The administration’s move came after the Ladakh Apex Body, spearheading the agitation over demands of Statehood and inclusion in the the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, had called for a “peaceful march” and a blackout in the evening in Leh “to express solidarity with the four locals who were killed in the September 24 violence in Leh”.
