A court here on Tuesday ordered Payal Abdullah, the estranged wife of former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, to vacate the Government accommodation allotted to Omar in 1999 in the lutyens Zone in Delhi.
The bungalow was allotted to Omar Abdullah, who is also the Nationalist Conference (NC) leader, in 1999 when he was elected to parliament from Jammu and Kashmir and became a Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Government at the Centre. District Judge Amar Nath dismissed Payal's plea to quash the eviction notice issued on June 30 by the Estate Officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Government for vacating bungalow No.7 on the Akbar Road here. In her plea, Payal pointed out that the eviction notice was not sent by the Ministry of Urban Development, which had originally allotted the accommodation to her husband.