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After being released from detention, here is how Mehbooba Mufti spent her day
Mufti, along with the entire separatist and mainstream leadership, was detained by the J&K Police on August 5 last year; the day the Centre abrogated Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and downgraded the state into two Union Territories.
Updated: October 14, 2020 17:28 IST
1 / 7Fourteen months after she was arrested, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti was released Tuesday night after the J&K government revoked her detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA). (Express photo)
2 / 7PDP members on Wednesday made a beeline to Fairview Bungalow -- the official residence of Mehbooba Mufti -- to meet her. (Express photo)
3 / 7PDP President Mehbooba Mufti with senior party leaders and workers at her residence in Srinagar on Wednesday. (Express photo)
4 / 7Besides party workers, senior National Conference leaders Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah visited Mehbooba Mufti at her residence Wednesday. (Express photo)
5 / 7In an audio message posted on Twitter after being released, she said the people of Jammu and Kashmir cannot forget the “robbery and humiliation” of August 5 and demanded release of all prisoners lodged in different jails of the Union territory and outside. (Express photo)
6 / 7Several PDP leaders, including former MLA from Wachi Aijaz Mir, posted laudatory tweets about the party leader. (Express photo)
7 / 7While Mufti was not the only mainstream leader booked under the PSA after the abrogation of J&K’s special status, she is the last mainstream political leader to be released by the government. (Express photo)
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