Mehbooba took to Twitter to announce the house arrest, saying, "I've been put under house arrest along with other senior PDP leaders today." She also posted pictures of the locked gate of her house on the outskirts of Srinagar. In a series of tweets, Mehbooba accused the government of using "brute force" to suppress the people's sentiment on the anniversary of the scrapping of the state's special status and its bifurcation into two Union Territories.