Kashmiri separatist patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani buried quietly in Srinagar

Family sources stated that he complained of severe chest pain on Wednesday afternoon

Geelani's family terms statements attributed to him false, fabricated

The family also requested media and social media users not to drag the ailing leader or his kin into “unnecessary controversies

Syed Geelani quit as chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference last month.

A police spokesman said that a case (FIR No 265/2020) under section 13 ULA(P) Act, 505 IPC (public mischief) has been registered.

Sources privy to the development said the nonagenarian politician’s move was being anticipated for quite some time within the amalgam.

Kashmir, under a security lockdown since August 4 night, has by its own standards been peaceful.

Nayeem Geelani, who had been evading questioning by the NIA for long, appeared on Monday and a detailed questioning took place on Tuesday.

The foreign currency was seized during an income-tax raid at Mr Geelani’s residence in Srinagar in 2002.

ED will also impose penalty and confiscate illegal acquisition of foreign exchange recovered from former Chairman of JKLF.

The leader was part of separatist political party Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH).