Thursday, March 28, 2024

“He is on death bed”: Family presses to transfer jailed Kashmiri leader to private hospital

Altaf Ahmed Shah, Kashmiri separatist leader, has moved an interim bail application before an NIA court in Delhi seeking his transfer to Apollo hospital on humanitarian grounds.

Shah, the son-in-law of tall Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani, has been in NIA custody in connection with its probe into the funding of terror and subversive activities in the Kashmir Valley since July 24, 2017.

The bail application was moved before Special Judge Shailender Malik, who directed the NIA to produce relevant medical records on October 6.

Meanwhile, Altaf Shah’s daughter and Kashmiri journalist Ruwa Shah wrote a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking intervention into the medical negligence faced by her father.

“My incarcerated father has been diagnosed of acute renal cancer which has metastasis and has spread to his other body parts, including his bones. It is my whole family’s request to please allow us to see him and consider his bail application on health grounds which was earlier today adjourned till 10 sept in the NIA court as his condition is very critical and deteriorating, as I write. He is presently on oxygen support in the ICU of RML hospital – where there is no oncology department,” Ruwa Shah tweeted.

“My father, Altaf Shah, is 66 and is a political prisoner since last 5 years at New Delhi’s Tihar Jail,” she said.

“This is in further association with my earlier communication. We thank you for allowing him medical treatment at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital based on an earlier request. However, the condition of my
father is not great rather worsening. We have been unfortunately informed that he has renal cancer
malignancy which has metastasis and has spread to other organs including vitals (spine, lungs, kidney,
abdomen),” read her letter on Saturday.

Shah was hospitalised on September 16 at DDU hospital due to sudden deterioration of his health. The plea stated that Shah has been “suffering from kidney related complications and no proper treatment is being provided to him.”

“That it is respectfully submitted that the health condition of the Applicant even after 15 days of his hospitalisation has not improved much and he continues to remain in the ICU. Moreover, no specific diagnosis has been done as to the reason for his health condition. Further, it is prayed that the Applicant may be granted interim bail so as to enable his family members to take care of him in this very precarious health condition,” read the bail plea.

“Till the bail is granted, with due process, we request you to put him in house arrest so that we can treat him at a private hospital. We thank you in Anticipation. I hope you would consider this plea from a daughter whose father is on death bed,” Shah wrote.

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