Aatif Qayoom

Srinagar, Mar 13 (KNS): The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday revoked the detention of the former chief minister and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah.
He has been under detention since August last year when the central government abrogated Article 370 and ended the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir.
“In exercise of powers conferred under Section 19(1) of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), 1978, the government hereby revokes the detention order bearing No. DMS/PSA/120/2019 issued by District Magistrate, Srinagar,” the administration said in its order issued on Friday.
Farooq Abdullah, along with son Omar and former chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti, were detained on August 5, 2019, a day before the Centre stripped Jammu and Kashmir of special status and bifurcated it into two union territories.
Earlier this week, a group of Opposition leaders had sought the immediate release of the three former chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir. “It is our bounden duty to demand the immediate release of the three former Chief Ministers of J&K and all the other political detainees,” read the statement from the Opposition leaders, which was posted by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on his Twitter handle on Monday. (KNS)