New Delhi: Jailed environmental activist Sonam Wangchuk has made a representation to the Leh administration-constituted advisory board on how his words were taken out of context from his videos and deliberately mistranslated to detain him under the National Security Act, his wife and social entrepreneur Gitanjali Angmo has written on X.

The three-member advisory board held a hearing at Jodhpur Central Jail for Wangchuk on October 24, which is when Wangchuk reportedly made his representation. Reports said that the hearing took almost three hours.

The board comprised chairman, former Jammu and Kashmir high court judge Justice M.K. Hanjura, principal district and sessions judge of Leh, Manoj Parihar, and principal district and sessions judge of Kargil, Spalzes Angmo.

Angmo wrote on X that she accompanied Wangchuk at the hearing. She also mentioned that Wangchuk told the advisory board that unrelated skirmishes between the Ladakh police, individuals and the CRPF were ascribed to the educator.

"He made his representation of how he was illegally detained under the NSA based on his words, statements and ideas taken out of context from his videos, how the translator has deliberately paraphrased his statements wrongly and how random and independent skirmishes between CRPF, Ladakh police, and random individuals have been ascribed to [Wangchuk]," Angmo wrote.

Earlier, Angmo had alleged that central agencies had been stalking her and violating her privacy. In an affidavit, she said that she was subjected to surveillance during jail visits and that her conversations were recorded by police.

"This is a travesty of justice and a mockery of Indian democracy. But he stays unfazed and conveys to everyone that Insaaf ke ghar der hai par andher nahi, firmly reiterating that # SatyamevaJayate, Truth Shall Prevail. And expresses his heartfelt gratitude to everyone who is supporting us and standing in solidarity with us the world over!" Angmo wrote on X.

When a X user replied to Angmo urging her to fight it in the courts and not on social media, Angmo said that the Union home ministry "started the fight through trolls here." "So it has to be also fought here. But Don’t worry. It will be fought everywhere! Here on social media, in the courts, in your minds and everywhere!!," she wrote.

Wangchuk and other Ladakh leaders had been fasting for statehood and special constitutional provisions for Ladakh in September when a section of protesters got violent, and alleged police firing killed four of them. The government invoked the draconian National Security Act against Wangchuk and he has been in jail since. In the days and months before his arrest, the government had cancelled the 40-year lease of Wangchuk’s Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh, and withdrawn a key licence of his NGO.

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