Kashmiri separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah, the son-in-law of the late Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, died of cancer at the AIIMS in the national capital early on Tuesday, days after he was taken to the hospital from the Tihar Jail on the orders of Delhi High Court. He was 66.

“We were informed about Abu’s passing away late last night,” said his daughter Ruwa Shah. In a tweet, she said Shah breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. “As a prisoner”.