Shah Faesal taken to makeshift detention center in Srinagar's Centaur Hotel

During preliminary questioning, Faesal said he was taking a connecting flight to London from Istanbul, officials said

Former IAS officer Shah Faesal, who is under detention, has been taken to a makeshift detention centre at the Centaur Hotel in Srinagar, officials said on Thursday.

He was shifted from his home to the hotel during the night, they said.

Faesal who was stopped from taking a flight to Istanbul at the Delhi airport during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday was flown back to Srinagar where he was detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA), they said.

During preliminary questioning, Faesal said he was taking a connecting flight to London from Istanbul, the officials said.

The former bureaucrat from Jammu and