India, Feb. 10 -- Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday for a 30-minute discussion on the restoration of statehood and the law and order situation in the union territory.

Following the revocation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre reorganised the region into two union territories-Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

During the meeting, Abdullah also briefed Shah on the recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir, including a suicide in Kathua and the shooting of a truck driver in Sopore after he failed to stop at a checkpoint.

After the incidents on February 4 and 5, the chief minister had said that such events "risk alienating the ...