Hurriyat leader, Mohammed Altaf Shah passed away weeks after he was detected with renal cancer in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
Family sources confirmed to The Kashmiriyat that the Hurriyat leader breathed his last during the intervening night.
*Shah’s daughter Ruwa Shah confirmed the death through a tweet. “Abu (father) breathed his last at AIIMS, New Delhi,” his daughter Ruwa Shah tweeted.
Earlier, his daughter had written a letter to the Prime Minister of India seeking his intervention in the deteriorating health of her father who has been languishing in the Tihar Jail in New Delhi since 2017.
Seeking medical attention for her father, Ruwa Shah, a journalist by profession, who is also the granddaughter of deceased Hurriyat Leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani in her letter addressed to PM Modi and HM Amit Shah has said that the health of her father is deteriorating in Tihar.
She has claimed that Altaf Shah, her father, was taken to hospital after several requests to jail authorities to do so, however, when the doctors recommended that he be taken to another hospital, he was rather shifted back to the jail.
The National Investigation Agency in July 2017 arrested seven Kashmiri separatist leaders in connection with its probe into the “funding of militancy” and “subversive” activities in the Kashmir Valley.
The seven separatist leaders who were arrested include Naeem Khan, Bitta Karate, Ayaz Akbar, T Saifullah, Meraz Kalwal, Saheed Ul Islam and Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s son-in-law Altaf Ahmad Shah alias Altaf Fantosh.