Farooq Abdullah was kept alongside a few chiefs including his child Omar Abdullah and PDP's Mehbooba Mufti on August 5, when the legislature finished uncommon status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and forced enormous security limitations and a correspondence lockdown.
The orders didn't give any explanation behind Farooq Abdullah's discharge.
He said he was "thankful" to each one of the individuals who battled for his opportunity and required the arrival of different prisoners.
He was among a large number of neighbourhood pioneers put under house capture a day before the contested district was deprived of its semi-self-governing status in August.
The administration conveyed a huge number of troops to control distress and implemented a crackdown on interchanges.
Mr Abdullah's confinement under the disputable Public Safety Act (PSA) had produced banter, particularly as he is an MP. Days back, eight resistance groups composed a letter to the legislature, requesting his discharge alongside other Kashmiri pioneers.
The joint goals cautioned that "law-based dispute is being gagged" in the state.
Two other previous boss priests - including Mr Abdullah's child Omar and Mehbooba Mufti - are still in confinement.
A huge number of others, including ideological group labourers, activists and attorneys are additionally in authority, with many brought to prisons in urban communities outside the area.
The legislature said the move, discredited by pundits as draconian, was important to keep up law and open request in the district. It additionally moved to the square web and versatile availability in the locale - these have just been halfway reestablished.
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A five-time boss priest of Indian-directed Kashmir, Mr Abdullah was broadly viewed as a "master India" government official in the state.
The two India and Pakistan guarantee the locale completely yet control just pieces of it.
At the point when he was first set under house capture, MPs requested clarification as the method is to advise parliament if a part regarding the house is to be captured.
This incited Home Minister Amit Shah to tell the house that Mr Abdullah was "not confined or captured".
In one of his last open meetings from that point forward, Mr Abdullah gave an enthusiastic TV meet where he charged Mr Shah of lying.
"For what reason would I remain inside my home on my own will when my state is being scorched, when my kin are being executed in prisons? This isn't the India I put stock in," he said.
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