LEH, 5 Oct: Jailed activist Sonam Wangchuk has appealed to the people of Ladakh to maintain peace and unity and continue with the ongoing struggle for statehood and safeguards under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution in the true Gandhian way of non-violence, his lawyer said on Sunday.

Wangchuk conveyed the message through the legal adviser of the Leh Apex Body, Haji Mustafa, who along with the activist’s elder brother Ka Tsetan Dorjey Ley, met him at Jodhpur jail in Rajasthan on Saturday.

Wangchuk said that unless there is an independent judicial inquiry into the killing of the four people during the 24 September violence, “I am prepared to stay in jail.”

He was detained on 26 September in Leh under the stringent National Security Act (NSA), two days after violent protests demandin

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