New Delhi, Oct 4: A judicial inquiry should be conducted into the firing during the September 24 clashes in Leh as a magisterial probe would not be able to hold the Union Territory administration answerable, Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) member Sajjad Kargili said on Saturday.

He was speaking at an event here to release a “fact-finding report” on Ladakh by the Socialist Party of India and NGOs National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) and Hum Bharat Ke Log.

Retired bureaucrat and former chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibulah, activist Radha Kumar and Samajwadi Party MP Iqra Chowdhury also backed the demand for statehood and safeguards for Ladakh under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution raised by the KDA and Leh Apex Body (LAB).

The Ladakh administration had ordered

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