Jammu and Kashmir government sends eviction notices to Omar Abdullah , Mehbooba Mufti over official bungalows

SRINAGAR: The government of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir government has sent eviction notices to two former chief ministers, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, to get them to vacate their official bungalows on Gupkar Road in Srinagar, officials sources said on Tuesday.


Another former CM, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, had a few weeks ago vacated the official Gupkar Road house allotted to him. Azad, as a former CM, had been occupying the J&K Bank’s guesthouse as his official residence, as provided in the J&K Legislature Members’ Pension Act, 1984.

The said law was scrapped when the J&K Reorganisation Act of 2019 took hold on October 31, 2019.

Former CMs Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti are in possession of two bungalows — Gupkar No.1 and Fairview House — which are fitted with modern facilities like gyms, saunas and steam baths.

In a report submitted to chief secretary B V R Subrahmanyam, Justice M K Hanjura (Retd), chairperson of the Law Commission, has declared Section 3-C (e) and (f) of the State Legislature Members’ Pension Act as arbitrary and not in consonance with any scheme or law.

Section 3-C, which pertains to facilities for ex-CMs, states: “Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, a member who is entitled to pension under this Act and who has served as Chief Minister of the State, shall be entitled to car, petrol, medical facilities, driver, rent-free furnished accommodation, expenditure to the limit of Rs 35,000 per annum for furnishing of the residential accommodation, free telephone calls up to the value of Rs 48,000 per annum, free electricity to the extent of Rs 1,500 per month…”

Meanwhile, Mehbooba’s daughter, Iltija Mufti, wrote a letter on Tuesday to the Srinagar district magistrate asking him to shift her mother, Mehbooba Mufti, currently in detention, to a safer place to protect her from the cold.

“A doctor recently ran multiple tests on her as she was not keeping well. As per those tests, her Vitamin D, haemoglobin and calcium levels are low. The accommodation she is currently lodged in is not equipped for Kashmir’s harsh winters. Keeping in mind these points, I would like to request you to shift her to another location more suitable. I hope you will address this problem urgently,” Iltija Mufti tweeted.


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