Leh: District Magistrate Leh on Tuesday ordered for withdrawal of restrictions under section 144. This comes after climate activist and scientist Sonam Wangchuk withdrew the call for “Pashmina March” from Leh to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on Sunday.
Wangchuk cited “risk of potential violence” as the reason for the decision, as the Union Territory administration had imposed Section 144 of the CrPC in the area.
Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk has withdrawn the call for “Pashmina March” from Leh to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on Sunday.
The restrictions have been revoked after senior superintendent of police informed the District Magistrate concerned of not any ‘imminent apprehension of breach of peace and public order’.
“Whereas certain restrictions were imposed under Section 144 of CrPC to prevent any breach of peace and disturbance to public tranquility vide this office order; and whereas the Senior Superintendent of Police Leh has reported in a letter that there is no imminent apprehension of breach of peace and public order and has recommended that the restrictions imposed under Section 144 of the CrPC may be withdrawn,” reads an order, a copy in possession of GNS.
“Therefore I, Santosh Sukhadeve, IAS, District Magistrate, Leh do hereby withdraw the restrictions imposed by this office with immediate effect,” the order reads.
Wangchuk, who recently sat on a 21-day fast seeking safeguards for Ladakh’s fragile ecology and local culture, had called for a people’s march to the China border on April 7 “to see how much land locals have lost to them”. The march was to be led by local tribal leaders.
