Srinagar: The Centre has decided to withdraw the special security group (SSG) protection of four former Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir.
According to reports, the SSG protection of National Conference’s Farooq Abdullah, his son and party vice president Omar Abdullah, PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti and Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was taken after a security review meeting by the government.
The SSG is a specialised security unit in Jammu and Kashmir created to protect chief ministers and former chief ministers in the former state.
All the four former chief ministers will now be protected by security wing of J&K police based on their security categorisation and threat assessment.
