Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday issued a notice to Mehbooba Mufti, the president of the People’s Democratic Party and a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir to vacate her official accommodation, Fairview home on Gupkar Road.
J&K | PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti confirms to ANI that she has been served a notice asking her to vacate her official government accommodation, the Fairview residence in Srinagar
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According to government sources, Mehbooba Mufti has received an eviction notice from the Estates Department to leave the Fairview home where her family has lived since 2005, when her father Mufti Muhammad Sayeed served as Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir.
According to authorities in the Jammu & Kashmir government, “the past CMs are no longer eligible to official accommodation after the Government of India altered a state statute in 2020.”
Mehbooba Mufti said that she had been told to leave the residence.
Government sources further confirmed that Mehbooba Mufti has been offered a different place to stay in lieu of the Fairview mansion.
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Formerly known as PAPA-2, the Muftis’ Fairview home served as a notorious torture facility.
It operated as an official guest home up until 1989. The Border Security Forces took possession of the structure in 1990 and gave it the moniker PAPA-2.
Up until 1996, it was still in use as a facility for torture and interrogations.
Former Chief Secretary of the State Ashok Jaitley moved in and started living there in 1996. It was refurbished in 2003, and Muzaffar Hussain Baig, the previous finance minister, lived there.
