Farooq neither detained nor arrested, can't bring him out at

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah has neither been detained nor arrested and he is at his home of his own free will, Home Minister Amit Shah said in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

"He is well... if he does not want to come out of his house, he cannot be brought out at gunpoint," the minister said after Congress MP Shashi Tharoor expressed concern over Abdullah's absence during the debate on a motion to abrogate provisions of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and a bill to split the state into two Union Territories.

NC leader Farooq Abdullah's son Omar Abdullah and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti have been arrested along with some other leaders in Jammu and Kashmir as a precautionary measure after the Centre revoked provisions of Article 370.

Earlier, NCP's Supriya Sule raised the issue of Abdullah, who sits next to her, being absent in the House, saying the debate will be considered incomplete without his participation.

Sule sits at seat number 462 in the House and .