KASHMIR BAR PRESIDENT SUFFERS HEART ATTACK IN INDIAN JAIL AGRA

Srinagar, 29 Jan , 2020: The 76-year-old Bar Association President, Mian Abdul Qayoom suffered a heart attack in Indian Agra jail in Uttar Pradesh , today. The illegally detaiend Mian Abdul Qayoom was admitted to a hospital in Agra Medical hospital. One of the most prominent lawyers and president of Kashmir’s High Court Bar Association Mian Abdul Qayoom was battling multiple ailments without proper medical care inside Agra jail in Uttar Pradesh.

 He was arrested from his residence in Srinagar on the intervening night of August 4 and 5, 2019 ahead of the India’s decision to abrogate Article 370 and 35A of occupied Jammu and Kashmir. 
 
He is surviving on just one kidney as his other kidney has been removed earlier,” family member told media men in Srinagar. 
 
Suffering from hypertension, Qayoom has to take more than a dozen pills everyday, for diabetes, hypertension, prostate malfunction and nine of them particularly to avoid dialysis inside jail. His condition has also deeply affected his wife, who is also a diabetic, the family member added.