Prominent leaders, including from ruling and opposition parties, were placed under "house arrest" in Srinagar on Sunday to prevent them.

Omar Abdullah said he and his party leaders foiled the police's attempts to catch them

The visit came a day after the District Administration Srinagar denied permission for gatherings

Omar Abdullah and several NC leaders slipped through security barricades to pay tributes to July 13 martyrs at Naqshband Sahib graveyard.

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Chief ministers of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu on Monday slammed the house arrest of their Jammu and Kashmir counterpart Omar Abdullah and his ministers. India News | Banerjee, Stalin Condemn BJP over Omar Abdullah's House Arrest.

Srinagar, July 14: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today accused a large section of local newspapers in Jammu and Kashmir of deliberately burying the “mass detention” of the elected government along with most elected representatives on the Martyrs’ Day. The administration of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha denied permission for any event to mark the anniversary of […]

Condemning the action, he said that from Tamil Nadu to Kashmir the Union BJP government is systematically stripping away the rights of elected state governments.