Kashmir’s chief cleric and chairman of his faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is likely to lead the congregational Friday prayers at historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar today.

Farooq has been under house detention since August 5, 2019, when the government of India abrogated the special status of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state and bifurcated it into two federally administered Union territories.