Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah may be martyred in Indian Jail

Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah may be martyred in Indian Jail

Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah, arrested in a decade-old case of money laundering for alleged terror-financing, today moved a Delhi court alleging security threat inside the jail. 

The application moved before Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma sought a direction to the jail superintendent to ensure his safety and security inside the jail and provide him proper medicine.

According to the plea, which will come up for hearing on August 14 along with Shah’s bail application, the accused is suffering from various ailments and is on regular medication. 

However, the medicines are not being provided to him by the jail authorities, the application moved through advocate M S Khan alleged. “He is lodged in a cell where other inmates are showing anger to him and passing unbearable comments. 

There is serious apprehension that any untoward incident may take place,” it said.