New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Top Union Home Ministry officials told MPs of both the Houses of Parliament on Friday that the situation in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is getting normal and the detained political leaders are being released gradually, but no timeline can be given for the rest of the leaders, sources said.

At a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, headed by Congress leader Anand Sharma, the MPs quizzed Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla and his team of officials on the prevailing situation in Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and the steps taken to bring back normalcy there.

This was for the first time that the meeting of the committee was held since August 5, when the central govern...