had been detained under house arrest for 220 days in the previous year, after the Government of India revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and Prof. Bhim Singh had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India in February 2020, demanding Farooq Abdullah's release, as well as the release of his son Omar Abdullah and 600 other political activists who had been detained for six months. Prof. Bhim Singh aged 79, had also just returned to active leadership when he was elected President of the Panthers Party the month before on 14 February 2021, when his nephew Balwant Singh Mankotia resigned from the post citing family issues. Prior to being elected President of the Panthers Party, Prof. Bhim Singh was briefly expelled from the Panthers Party by his nephew and party chairman Harsh Dev Singh in Nov 2020, when he had met with Farooq Abdullah at his residence and the rest of the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration in Srinagar, Kashmir. At the Panther Party event, Abdullah had commented that the "Congress which is a national level party has become weak", and that the recent division and removal of Jammu and Kashmir's special status was "an attack on our honour." In reference to Prof. Bhim Singh and Harsh Dev Singh, Abdullah hoped that "these lions will stand up to the challenge posed by the divisive forces." Bulgari Hotel London Incident 2021 Following a fight and dispute with a Pakistani businessman in relation to the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, Ankit Love was removed by London metropolitan police from the Bulgari Hotel & Residencies, one of the most expensive apartment buildings in the world, where in 2012 an apartment sold for $157 million (INR 1200 crore). Love had been invited to the hotel as a guest by Ariana Ghani, niece of then president of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani in July 2021, just a month prior to the Fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Aam Admi Party Defection 2022 In 2022, over a hundred Panthers Party members, including three former MLAs and two ex cabinet ministers merged into the newly formed Jammu and Kashmir branch of AAP party. AAP had just recently won the Punjab assembly election. Prof. Bhim Singh had expelled all members who had defected to the AAP, stating their exit thus had no effect. Jay Mala Leadership Panthers Party founder Bhim Singh died in office as