Separatist Leader dies at AIIMS Delhi
Separatist Leader dies at AIIMS Delhi
By Mir Danish/PTK
Press Trust Of Kashmir Srinagar Oct 11:- Jailed separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi early on Tuesday morning.
“Abu (father) breathed his last at AIIMS, New Delhi. As a prisoner,” Ruwa Shah his daughter tweeted.
Son-in-law of late Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Shah was arrested by the NIA in 2018, along with several other separatist leaders, in an alleged terror funding case and was lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail.
Shah was diagnosed with renal cancer that spread to other parts of his body, and was shifted to Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital that had no oncology department, his daughter had said.
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The Delhi High Court had on October 1 ordered that Shah be shifted to AIIMS in Delhi.
The court had also directed that his son or daughter be allowed to meet him for an hour every day
Notably his son Anees ul Islam was victim of the government crackdown on employees. His services were terminated by the government under section 311 (2) (C) for being a “threat to the security of the state” in October 2021.
He is survived by wife, son and two daughters.
A resident of Soura in Srinagar, Shah was the son-in-law of late Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani and was one of his close associates.
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