Former CM of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah of the state will be released after the government ended special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and imposed massive security restrictions and a communication lockdown.
Farooq Abdullah was detained for seven months under the Public Safety Act or PSA, a stringent law that allows detention without trial.
The Jammu and Kashmir government has issued an order for the release of Farooq.
"My father is a free man again," tweeted his daughter Safia Abdullah Khan.