Sonam Wangchuk’s wife alleges surveillance in Delhi

‘A car follows me wherever I go’
NEW DELHI: Gitanjali Angmo, the wife of jailed Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk, alleged on Friday that she is being followed in Delhi even as her husband remains in jail under the National Security Act (NSA). Angmo alleged that those working closely with them have been detained and subjected to mental and physical torture.
Speaking to a news agency, Angmo said that she was not getting any judicial help to get in touch with her husband.
“I only got a call from a member of an apex body that he has received a call from DSP saying that some people could meet (Sonam Wangchuk). I told him that I want this in writing. But I have never received anything such,” she said.
Angma, who moved to the Supreme Court challenging Wangchuk’s arrest over the September 24 Ladakh statehood agitation violence, claimed that she was being followed everywhere in Delhi.
“A car follows me wherever I go… The staff that was working closely with us have been detained. They are in police custody… They are being beaten up. They are being tortured mentally and physically. On one hand, Sonam is being detained inhumanely, and on the other hand, a witch hunt against us has been intensified,” she alleged.
Angmo said that this was the reason she moved the Supreme Court.
“I am worried about how he is getting treated in jail. This message should reach throughout India: If justice can be delayed for a celebrity, with whom the whole country is rallying, who has worked at the grassroots, then what recourse does a commoner have?” she asked.
Earlier on Wednesday, she had written a letter to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking her intervention in securing the unconditional release of her activist husband. She requested the President to “inject a voice of sanity in an otherwise chaotic state of affairs.”
However, Angmo said that she has not received any response to her letter, a copy of which was also sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.
Agencies