Overview
- The Supreme Court, which heard the habeas plea Monday, disposed of it as infructuous after the Centre revoked the March 14 detention order, saying there was nothing left to decide.
- The Home Ministry said it ended the National Security Act detention to foster peace and dialogue in Ladakh and noted Wangchuk had served nearly half of the maximum preventive-detention term.
- The petition said officials withheld key material used to justify detention, including videos of speeches, and the bench earlier flagged translation errors and said authorities were reading too much into the remarks.
- Wangchuk has returned to Leh after release and urged peaceful, constructive talks while calling for the release of others still facing protest-related cases.
- His detention followed September 2025 protests in Leh over statehood and Sixth Schedule status that turned violent and left four people dead.