New Delhi: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Sunday (September 27) sought accountability over the September 2025 Leh violence and demanded that the findings of the judicial inquiry into the incident be made public, reported The Hindu.“Almost a year later, Ladakh is still waiting for the findings. Who ordered the firing? Were all the prescribed stages of crowd control exhausted before live ammunition was used? Why were people hit in vital parts of their bodies? That is exactly why a judicial inquiry was constituted. So let the report come. Let the people know the truth,” said Wangchuk on Sunday, while addressing a press conference at the Press Club of India, New Delhi.“And if the inquiry establishes wrongdoing, then whoever is responsible, however senior, must be held accountable,” he added.In the September 24, 2025 violence, four people were killed and more than 80 injured in alleged police firing on protesters in Leh. The protesters had been demanding statehood for Ladakh and its inclusion in the Sixth Schedule pf the Constitution.Wangchuk also demanded that the affected families in Ladakh be compensated based on the same principle as those affected by the NEET paper leak, “who were assured Rs 1 crore”.“For nearly six months, I remained in the Jodhpur Central Jail. If I really was such a danger to national security or public order that I had to be taken away from Ladakh and kept under the NSA (National Security Act), then why am I free today? I do not ask this question out of bitterness. Those six months taught me a great deal. But the question is important because tomorrow it may not be Sonam Wangchuk,” said Wangchuk on Sunday.Wangchuk was detained under the NSA on September 26, 2025, and arrested on September 27, just days after the violence in Leh. He had been accused of inciting the protests. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government revoked his detention in March 2026. He subsequently continued to push for the resumption of talks and participated in the May 22 meeting between Ladakh representatives and the Union government.Wangchuk also questioned the Rs 15 lakh compensation announced by the Ladakh administration for the families of the victims, reported The Hindu.“Can Rs 15 lakh ever compensate a mother for her son, a wife for her husband, or children for their father? Of course not. 15 lakh feels painfully inadequate. What makes this even harder to understand is that the Union Territory administration in Ladakh is able to spend crores of rupees on festival after festival, celebrations and public events. At times, Ladakh has had more than five festivals in a month. If we have money to celebrate, we must have money to heal and console,” said Wangchuk.