Kashmiri dissident pioneer Altaf Ahmad Shah, the child in-law of the late Hurriyat pioneer Syed Ali Shah Geelani, passed on from disease at the AIIMS here early Tuesday, days after he was taken to the emergency clinic from the Tihar Prison on the sets of Delhi High Court. He was 66. "We were educated about Abu's dying before the end of last night," his little girl Ruwa Shah told PTI. In a tweet, she said Shah died at the All India Organization of Clinical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, "As a detainee." Shah, an occupant of the Soura territory of Srinagar, was captured on July 25, 2017, with six others, confronting preliminary in a supposed fear financing case examined by the Public Examination Organization (NIA). On October 5, the Delhi High court has requested his moving to the AIIMS Delhi for suitable therapy after he was expressed to have been determined to have disease.

Shah told the court he was getting therapy for specific serious diseases at the Slam Manohar Lohia Medical clinic (RML) however it was as of late uncovered he was experiencing the last stage renal malignant growth. While asserting the RML doesn't have the sufficient office to treat renal malignant growth, he asked he be permitted to be moved to the AIIMS or Apollo Medical clinic for critical therapy. Shah is made due by spouse, child and two little girls.