The announcement came soon after National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and the party’s vice president Omar Abdullah visited Mufti at her residence.

Early this month Iltija Mufti filed a fresh petition before the Supreme Court seeking the release of her mother Mehbooba Mufti.

Mehbooba Mufti was arrested on August 5, 2019, the day the government revoked Article 370. She was booked under section 107 of CrPC, and then the stringent Public Safety Act.

Mehbooba Mufti was arrested on August 5, 2019, the day the government revoked Article 370. She was booked under section 107 of CrPC, and then the stringent Public Safety Act.

The National Conference said the legal system will come to the rescue of its partymen who are in detention since August 5 last year, when the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was abrogated.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration had arrested most of the political leaders after the abrogation of Article 370 in August last year.

Having spent over eight months in detention at two government facilities that were designated as sub-jails, Mufti was shifted to her home on April 7 as a partial relief to her.

The Fairview residence of Mehbooba Mufti, now a makeshift jail, was also known Papa-2, the infamous torture center in Kashmir.

In a series of tweets, Omar Adbullah talked about life under house arrest and promised to share more about his time at Hari Niwas, which was notoriously known as the torture chamber in the 1990s.

Farooq Abdullah had requested the Jammu and Kashmir authority for permission to see his son for the first time in seven months

Iltija said that though people of Kashmir are angry with local political leaders like Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, "they are more angry with the central government".

The Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh said Monday that besides fighting terrorism, the police has to ensure that other crimes remain under check.

The mosque in Nowhatta area in downtown Srinagar -- the old city area -- has been closed for prayers for nearly four months, officials said.

The clashes broke out on a day when a delegation of 23 European Union MPs arrived in Srinagar for a first-hand assessment of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir

More than a thousand people, including politicians, separatists, activists and lawyers, were detained after the August 5 move of the central government to abrogate the state's special status.

Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko's counsel questioned the conduct of Jammu and Kashmir administration and claimed that few minutes before the scheduled hearing in the apex court on September 16, Abdullah was detained under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act.

Additional security bunkers are being constructed in the city and elsewhere in the valley to prevent militants from moving from one place to another

There was no classwork in schools as efforts of the state government to open educational institutions have not borne any fruit as parents continued to keep children at home in view of their safety.

The slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) against former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah is ironical, to say the least. The Act was introduced in Jammu and Kashmir by Abdullah's father, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, on April 8, 1978, to deter timber smugglers.