India, Sept. 27 -- Police on Friday detained activist Sonam Wangchuk under the draconian National Security Act (NSA) and flew him from Leh to Jodhpur,people aware of the matter said, two days after protests over statehood and land protections roiled Ladakh and left four people dead and 100 injured.

The Union government has blamed Wangchuk, a climate activist who won the Magsaysay Award in 2018 and who was among the leading figures of the Ladakh statehood movement, for provoking the clashes on Wednesday. A day later, the Union home ministry cancelled the foreign funding licence of a non-governmental organisation run by Wangchuk.

Wangchuk was taken into custody by a police party led by Ladakh Police chief SD Singh Jamwal at 2:30 pm, an of...