Srinagar, October 12, 2022: 66-year-old Jailed APHC leader, Altaf Ahmed Shah son of Syed Muhammad Yousuf Shah of Bachpora Srinagar had been languishing in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail where he was diagnosed with late stage renal cancer died in Indian captivity in All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital in Indian city New Delhi.
Jailed APHC leader Altaf Shah, the son-in-law of Hurriyat leder Syed Ali Geelani passed away battling cancer while he was undergoing treatement at All India Institite of Medical Sciences.
Under Detention since 2017, Altaf Ahmed Shah (Funtoosh) was recently detected with renal cancer after he was shifted to a Delhi hospital, however, as per the family the doctors at the hospital recommended that the leader be shifted to another hospital. “He was shifted back to Tihar Jail,” his family said.
Seeking medical attention for her father, Ruwa Shah, a journalist by profession, said 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
Include Naeem Khan, Farooq Dar alias Bitta Karate, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Mehrajudin Kalwal, Saheed Ul Islam and martyr Altaf Ahmad Shah alias Altaf Fantosh in false cases registered against them.
Altaf Ahmed Shah is the third Hurriyat leader to have died under detention since the Indian Government unilaterally abrogated the special status of Jammu Kashmir.
Ghulam Mohammad Bhat , 65, a longtime prominent member of Hurriyat who was among the thousands of people detained under a black law, the Public Safety Act (PSA), in the run-up to August 05 died in a Jail in Agra UP Indian state December 2019, where he was held captive. “Two policemen came to the Bhat’s home, informing his son that his father’s detention has been quashed, because of an illness and he should go and bring him home,” his son, Hanif said.
The reasons behind Bhat’s death were not known. “The only illness the deceased ever suffered was limp in one leg caused by injuries inflicted during custodial torture by the Indian army in 1993,” Hanif said.
Bhat was a resident of Kulangam village in Kupwara district presented himself before the local police post on July 17. A month later, his family was told that he had been taken to a faraway jail in Allahabad district, Uttar Pradesh state of India.
After nearly nine months of detention under the Public Safety Act in Udhampure jail Tehreek-e- Hurriyat chairman, Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai in his late 70s passed away under detention in Jammu’s Government Medical College (GMC), nearly 350 kilometers away from his home in Srinagar on May 05, 2021.
Meanwhile, India’s dreaded National Investigation Agency conducted raids at multiple places and seized several mobile devices and documents, properties etc in Srinagar, Budgam, Bandipora, Pulwama, Shopian, Poonch , Jammu and Rajouri districts.
India’s dreaded National Investigation Agency (NIA) along with Indian paramilitary personnel raided several houses and institutions of Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir including Al Huda Educational Trust (AHET), Rajouri J&K . Rajouri, Poonch, Jammu, Srinagar, Bandipora, Shopian, Pulwama, and Budgam districts and arrested Muhammad Ameer Shamshi of Ujhan village of Darhal Rajouri member of AHET, Rajouri, J&K under UA(P)Act,