File Photo/Getty Images National Conference's Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah at Parliament House, on June 25, 2019 in New Delhi. SRINAGAR — The detention of Farooq Abdullah, a three-term chief minister of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, was extended on Saturday by three months and he would continue to remain at his residence that has been declared a sub-jail, officials said. The case of Abdullah, also a five-term parliamentarian, was reviewed by the advisory board of the Home Department of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir which recommended extension of his detention under the PSA, they said. His house, located at Gupkar Road, has been declared a sub-jail by the the union territory’s Home Department. The 82-year-old Abdullah, who became the first chief minister against whom the stringent public safety law was invoked, has a heart pacemaker implanted and had undergone a kidney transplant a few years ago.

Source: Huffington Post December 14, 2019 11:48 UTC