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'Cops move Wangchuk to hospital': How newspapers played down police action at CJP protest

Scroll | July 19, 2026 4:40 PM CST

A day after activist Sonam Wangchuk was forcibly removed from the site of his hunger strike at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and taken to a hospital, leading newspapers on Sunday highlighted the police’s claims that they had acted on the High Court’s order.

While most newspapers covered the story on their front page, the Hindustan Times buried the story in the bottom half of the page and limited it to the Opposition parties’ comments on the developments.

Hindi daily Amar Ujala did not mention the story on its front page.

Wangchuk has been on a hunger strike since June 28. His fast is part of a protest led by the political campaign Cockroach Janta Party demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the alleged mismanagement of competitive examinations.

On Saturday morning, he was taken away from the protest site, with the police claiming that he had been shifted to the Safdarjung Hospital for “essential medical care” in compliance with a High Court order.

The Delhi High Court had on Thursday directed the Centre and the Delhi government to ensure that the health and medical condition of the activist is monitored daily. Any medical intervention required to improve his health should be undertaken by the government, the court had said.

On Sunday, while not giving the story a prominent space on the...