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PDP leader Naeem Akhtar evicted from official residence in Srinagar

| Watsupptoday | Srinagar |

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former Cabinet Minister Naeem Akhtar was evicted from his official residence in Srinagar�s Gupkar Road.
�Officials of the Estates Department arrived at the residence around 11 a.m. and put me on a notice to leave by 4 p.m. It was just a five-hour notice. I told them we are in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic and I have just my wife and daughter to help me pack up. But they made it clear that if I fail to move out, then they may use other means,� Mr. Akhtar said.
Akhtar, a close aide of incarcerated PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, was released on June 18 from a sub-jail in Srinagar. Mr. Akhtar, who served as a Cabinet Minister in the PDP-BJP alliance government, was arrested on August 5 last year when the Centre revoked J&K special status, and was later booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA).
�I was singled out and targeted because I refused to sign the bond of silence,� Akhtar said.
The PDP leader has escaped two attempts on his life since 2016. His house was attacked with a petrol bomb in 2016. �The irony is that I am told I am under house arrest, though I now have no house to stay. This administration is aware of the threat to me and my family,� Mr. Akhtar said after he vacated the house.
Meanwhile, the J&K administration has allotted a fresh government accommodations to the leaders of the recently-floated J&K Apni Party (JKAP) in Srinagar.