Farooq Abdullah’s Detention Betrays The Government’s Nervousness On J&K scroll.in

The government seems to have abandoned the pretense that the detention of political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir is about law and order.

Last month, Union Home Minister Amit Shah categorically denied that Farooq Abdullah, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference leader and member of Parliament Farooq from Srinagar, was under house arrest. The pretense wore thin last week, when Hasnain Masoodi, also a member of Parliament from the National Conference, had to seek the Supreme Court’s permission to meet Farooq Abdullah and his son, Omar Abdullah. The court allowed the meeting but instructed him not to speak to the press about it.