Omar Abdullah To Be Released Today After Over 7 Months In Detention

Omar Abdullah will be released shortly after over seven months in detention in Kashmir. The former Chief Minister was detained along with hundreds of politicians in August, when the centre decided to end special status to the former state of Jammu and Kashmir and divided it into two union territories.

The Supreme Court had last week, on Omar Abdullah's sister's petition for his immediate release, asked the centre to respond by this week whether it planned to free him.

"If you are releasing him, then release him soon or we will hear the matter on merits," the Supreme Court told the government.