Mehbooba Mufti Shifted To Her Residence, Detention Continues

Mufti was detained on August 5 last year after article 370 was abrogated and the state downgraded to the status of a union territory.

Mehbooba Mufti (Source: PTI)

New Delhi: Former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Mehbooba Mufti who was detained under Public Safety Act, has been  shifted to her official residence at Fairview Gupkar Road today, news agencies reported.  The order terms her official residence as a 'subsidiary jail', where she will continue to remain under detention. Official sources said Mehbooba Mufti was shifted to her Gupkar Road official residence on Tuesday, adding that her detention will continue. Mufti was detained on August 5 last year after article 370 was abrogated and the state downgraded to the status of a union territory. She was first taken into preventive detention and later booked under the stringent public safety act (PSA). She was initially kept at the Hari Niwas guesthouse in Srinagar and later shifted to a tourism department hut in the Chashma Shahi area. From there she was shifted to a government quarter in the transport yard lane in Srinagar. There is no official word on whether the decision to shift her to her official residence on the Gupkar Road is a prelude to her being set free. The order to shift the 60-year-old Mufti, who was initially put under preventive custody on August 5 last year and later booked under the stringent PSA on February 6, was issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Home department. The order stated that she was being shifted from a subsidiary jail at Maulana Azad Road to "Fairview Gupkar Road" which is her official residence. Before shifting her, the government accorded status of subsidary jail to her official residence with immediate effect, it said.