Wangchuk was taken into custody around 2.30 pm by a team led by Ladakh’s Director General of Police SD Singh Jamwal.

The activist was to have addressed a press conference at 2.30 pm.

This comes after the Centre’s allegation that Wangchuk’s “provocative statements” incited the violence on Wednesday.

On Thursday, the activist had said that he was not afraid of being arrested, but alleged that the authorities were making him a scapegoat.

Sakina Begum was spotted in Mirpur, a crowded residential locality in Dhaka, by a BBC Bangla crew, which contacted her family.

Begum, a resident of Sonpur village in Nalbari district, was among the hundreds taken into police custody in May amid a crackdown on declared foreigners.

Although a foreigners tribunal declared Begum a foreigner in 2012, her nam

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