Ex-CM Shifts To Sister’s House In City Outskirts
Srinagar- Former Chief Minister and People’s Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti on Monday vacated her official bungalow in the high-security Gupkar area in Srinagar, her party spokesman said.
She has shifted to a private residence at Khimber on Srinagar outskirts. The house where Mehbooba shifted belongs to her younger sister and brother-in-law who are doctors and based outside the country.
“Mehbooba vacated her Gupkar residence,” PDP spokesman said.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration had last month asked Mehbooba to vacate the government’s Fairview bungalow and also set a deadline to move out by the end of November.
Initially she was told to vacate on November 15.
Mehbooba’s new residence is more than 20 km away from Fairview residence.
The Fairview bungalow was allotted to Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in December 2005, after he relinquished the chief minister’s office. The Fairview bungalow was the address of late Mufti Sayeed and his daughter Mehbooba for over a decade.
The Fairview residence was formerly an infamous torture center, known as PAPA-2.
Until 1989, it served as an official guest house. The building was occupied by the Border Security Forces in 1990 who named it PAPA-2.
It continued to function as an interrogation and torture center till 1996.
In 1996, Ashok Jaitley, former Chief Secretary of the State moved in and used it as his residence. In 2003 it was renovated and served as the residence of then Finance Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig.
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