The deceased was the son-in-law of separtist Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 11: Jailed separatist leader from Kashmir, Altaf Ahmad Shah, on Tuesday morning passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Ruwa Shah in a tweet. “Abu (father) breathed his last at AIIMS, New Delhi. As a prisoner,” she tweeted.
Diagnosed with renal cancer, Shah was shifted to Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital where he remained on a ventilator. When the family appealed to the court that the hospital lacks cancer treatment systems, he was ordered to be shifted to AIIMS on October 1.
The court permitted his son and daughter to be with their father for hour daily.
Shah, 66, lived in Soura area of Srinagar and was the son-in-law and associate of Syed Ali Geelani and was one of his close associates. He is survived by wife, son and daughter.
