Sonam Wangchuk hunger strike LIVE: Delhi HC declines interim relief on plea by Wangchuk's wife seeking transfer from Safdarjung Hospital
The Delhi High Court declined interim relief on the plea by Gitanjali Angmo, Sonam Wangchuk’s wife seeking his transfer from Safdarjung Hospital to a hospital
The Delhi High Court declined interim relief on the plea by Gitanjali Angmo, Sonam Wangchuk’s wife seeking his transfer from Safdarjung Hospital to a hospital of his choice. The Court accepted the Centre’s stand that shifting him to Safdarjung was a medical decision, not an arbitrary one. Earlier, Ms. Angmo had said she has “lost faith” in Safdarjung hospital and wants to move the activist to a private facility of her choice before his health further deteriorates.
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Here are Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike updates from July 18 Wangchuk was forcibly taken to Safdarjung hospital on Saturday by the Delhi Police as CJP’s founder Abhijeet Dipke sat on an indefinite
hunger strike against the activist’s ‘kidnapping’. Dipke warned earlier that the Delhi Police “is planning to crackdown on our protest during night or early hours of morning - silencing the voice of youth”.
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