Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and around 120 others from Ladakh (a remote high-altitude Union Territory in northern India, formerly part of Jammu and Kashmir) were detained by Delhi Police at the Singhu border on October 1, 2024, while marching to the capital to demand Sixth Schedule status — a constitutional provision granting greater autonomy to tribal regions — for Ladakh. Two petitions were filed in the Delhi High Court challenging the detentions and a police order banning assemblies of five or more people near the capital, with hearings scheduled for October 3. The march and subsequent legal battle highlight ongoing tensions over Ladakh's governance rights following its reorganisation as a Union Territory in 2019, which stripped it of a state legislature and, activists argue, meaningful self-rule.