Kashmir separatist leader Shabir Shah hospitalised
April 28th, 2010 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANSJammu, April 28 (IANS) Shabir Ahmad Shah, prominent separatist leader and president of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, was hospitalised here Wednesday after he fell unconscious in his prison barrack, an official said.
Shabir Shah fell unconscious in his barrack in Kot Bhalwal jail on the outskirts of Jammu. He is having multiple health problems.
“He was immediately shifted to a private hospital,” the official in the prison department said.
Doctors attending to the separatist leader refused to comment on his condition.
Shabir Shah was booked under the Public Safety Act by the authorities who feared that his presence in Kashmir could cause a big trouble there. He was in the forefront of protests against human rights violations in the state.
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