 The Hindustan Times has reported that he is "serving a life term".The "Sunday Leader" in Sri Lanka stated that Shahi disappeared in 2001 and sightings of him were thereafter reported around the world.Of the two factions of Shahi's followers, the "Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam" had asserted that Shahi died, and built a tomb for him at the Markazi Aastana in Kotri, where devotees performed pilgrimage.