On 24 September, protests demanding statehood and constitutional safeguards for the Union Territory of Ladakh escalated violently in Leh, resulting in four fatalities. Demonstrators clashed with police, setting a police vehicle ablaze and attacking a political office. This marks the first major outbreak of violence in the ongoing statehood movement. A curfew on Thursday was reported by PTI. The unrest in this sensitive border region, which shares a frontier with China, introduces new security risks and operational disruptions, including restricted movement, ahead of scheduled government talks on 6 October on the demands of the people of Ladakh.