Wangchuk’s arrest: Wife Angmo calls anti-national claims 'blatant lies'; vows fight

NEW DELHI: Condemning the allegations made against clime activistic Sonam Wangchuk arsenic “blatant lies”, Gitanjali Angmo, his woman and co-founder of Himalayan Institute of Alternatives Ladakh, said Tuesday that the narratives being built to task him arsenic an “anti-national” were “totally baseless” and portion of a “witch-hunt” aimed astatine weakening his question for Sixth Schedule protections for Ladakh.Wangchuk was arrested nether the stringent NSA successful Leh connected Friday for allegedly instigating protests connected Sept 24 and shifted to a Jodhpur jail.Angmo said she had not been capable to interaction him and was yet to beryllium provided with ceremonial documents detailing the charges. “We volition usage the champion ineligible strategy successful the state to support him and we volition not remainder till the information has been established ,” she said.

Allegations are wrong, says Sonam’s wife

We openly situation that whoever wants to statement with america connected this contented we are acceptable to antagonistic it with facts, grounds and the documents to beryllium that these allegations are wrong,” Gitanjali Angmo said astatine a property league wherever she interacted with journalists successful Delhi.She alleged that what was happening with Wangchuk was portion of the “ongoing witch-hunt” that they person been facing for astir 4 years and implicit the past 1 period successful peculiar aimed astatine weakening the question for Sixth Schedule for Ladakh. She said “baseless narratives” are being dispersed against Wangchuk though CBI and I-T officials were provided each documents.