Mehbooba Mufti swept away opponents to win the Anantnag assembly seat recently, but her government has run into a wall trying to evict former CM Omar Abdullah’s estranged wife from a sprawling type-VIII 7 Akbar Road bungalow, which is the CM’s designated official residence in New Delhi. Payal Abdullah, estranged from Omar in 2011, has resisted all attempts by the J&K resident commission estate officer to evict her. As an estranged wife, Payal insists, it’s her legal right to contest the eviction and live in the bungalow allotted to her…
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