"As A Prisoner": Kashmiri Separatist Leader Altaf Shah Dies At Delhi Hospital
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Altaf Shah's daughter Ruwa Shah had posted a series of tweets about her father's deteriorating condition; he was later shifted to AIIMS
Jailed Kashmiri separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah has died at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi. He was in Delhi's Tihar Jail for last five years after being arrested on charges of funding terrorism. After initially being admitted to RML Hospital in Delhi, he'd been shifted to AIIMS a few days ago on court orders after her family said he had renal cancer.
“Abu breathed his last at AIIMS, New Delhi. As a prisoner,” tweeted his daughter Ruwa Shah. She tweeted the Quranic verse recited at the time of bad news, in Arabic: “Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un (‘Surely, we belong to Allah and verily to Him do we return').”
Altaf Shah, 66, was a son-in- law and close aide of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, one of Kashmir's top separatist leaders, who died on September 1 last year.
The family has alleged that Altaf Shah was not given the medical help he needed for cancer. He was shifted to AIIMS only after the family went to the Delhi High Court.
