Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Monday (January 12, 2026) said in the Supreme Court that far-removed and unconnected events, vague aspersions, misrepresentation of facts and mechanical application of mind by authorities formed the basis and reason for his detention on September 26 last year after protests for Statehood to Ladakh took a violent turn resulting in multiple deaths.
Authorities hid my video messages for peace, malice coloured the detention: Wangchuk tells SC
Appearing before a Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and P.B. Varale, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, for Mr. Wangchuk and his wife Gitanjali Angmo, submitted that the detention order was a mere “copy-paste” of the request made by authorities for his custody.
“Application of mind by the detaining authority should be independent of the material provided to it by the authorities proposing it,” Mr. Sibal submitted.
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