Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration is likely to shift political detenues from the Centaur Hotel, located on the banks of DalLake, to a private hotel in the cantonment area in view of the forth coming winter season, officials said.

They said that since heating arrangements at the government-run hotel were not adequate, the state administration took thedecision of shifting the political detenues who were lodged there since August 5, when the Centre abrogated the state's special status.

They said that talks with a private hotel, located in the high-security cantonment area, had been finalised and the detenues, whichinclude Sajjad Lone of Peoples Conference (PC), Ali Mohammad Sagar of National Conference (NC), Sagar's son Salman and Naem Akhtar of the PDP, would beshifted soon.