Every morning a long line of luxury vehicles park outside Sher-e-Kashmir International Conventional Centre (SKICC), in Srinagar, overlooking picturesque Dal Lake. These vehicles chauffer relatives of politicians detained inside.
Since August 5, the Centaur Lakeview Hotel, adjacent to the SKICC, is designated as a sub-jail where over 50 politicians, lawmakers, and ministers are held in preventive detention. Their detention orders are signed and renewed after every ten days by their local Magistrates, relatives of the detainees said.
SKICC has two parts; one is the Convention Centre and the other Centaur Lakeview Hotel, where politicians are detained. SKICC is state property and Centaur Lake View Hotel is a property of the Hotel Corporation of India.
For the last few days, they are allowed to meet their families, relatives and in some special cases’ their political workers too.
But the situation was completely different in the first fortnight when the entry was restricted to close relatives only.
In one of the cars Yawar Nabi Bhat, 28, is waiting impatiently for the last one hour for his mother to come out.
This is his fifth visit since his father Dr. Ghulam Nabi Bhat, 62, a former National Conference (NC) lawmaker from Tral was detained during a nocturnal raid from his Sanat Nagar residence. “Two days before the abrogation of Article 370 my father’s Personal Security Officers (PSOs) were withdrawn,” said Yawar, a businessman. “They were asked to report back to Tral Police Station.”
On August 6, the same SPO’s along with DySp Tral knocked at their house and told Bhat to get ready as they have orders for his detention. “They told him to pack his bag quickly,” said Yawar.
Bhat’s family was told that he would be taken to a guesthouse at Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI), Pampore.
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