Separatist leader and Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Shah has been taken into custody under Public Safety Act, official sources said on Saturday.

Shah was detained on Friday at a nursing home of government medical college here, where he was undergoing
treatment for kidney and skin related ailments, the sources said.
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Guards have been deployed at the hospital room of the separatist leader by the authorities of Kotbalwal jail, they said.
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