Prior to the implementation of the Kashmir Reorganization Act 2019 in Jammu and Kashmir on 5 August, the administration as precautionary detention of separatists in the former Jammu and Kashmir state besides a large number of trade union leaders and all heads of non-BJP parties doing mainstream politics Leaders and activists were also detained.

Around 500 leaders of various non-BJP political parties, including National Conference, Congress, PDP, CPI (M), People's Conference, Awami Ittehad Party, Nationalist Democratic Party, People's Democratic Front, Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement, Awami National Conference, were taken into preventive custody or He was placed under house arrest. Most of the leaders were detained around their homes.

However, 57 leaders were initially housed in the Centaur Hotel Sub Jail located on the premises of the Shere Kashmir International Convention Center. Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were first kept at Hari Niwas and Chashma Shahi respectively. Omar was later kept in a bungalow at Gupakar near his house, while Mehbooba is kept in the transport lane.

Now only nine leaders stayed in the Sabzel MLA hostels:
On the basis of the betterment of the situation, the administration started the order of the release of the leaders kept in Centaur Sub Jail at the end of August itself. During the month of November, when the detained leaders were brought from Centaur to the Sabel MLA Hostel, their number was reduced to about three dozen. Now only nine leaders are left in the Sabel MLA hostels. The names of Naeem Akhtar, Abdul Rahman Veeri, Pirzada Mansoor, Shah Faisal of Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement and Mubarak Gul of National Conference are notable among them.