Pro-Pakistani face in Kashmir Aasiya Andrabi sent to judicial custody for waging war against India

New Delhi, July 17: Pro-Pakistani face in Kashmir and separatist Aasiya Andrabi with her two associates Nahida Nasreen and Fehmeeda Sofi was sent to one-month judicial custody by a Delhi court in connection with a case of allegedly waging war against the country with support from Pakistan.

 

Notably, a District Judge Poonam A Bamba sent all the three accused to judicial for waging war against the country after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said they were not required for further custodial interrogation. The three accused will be kept in Tihar Central Jail.

The NIA had claimed that the investigation revealed that Asyia Andrabi and her two associates were running a concerted campaign to gain support from the neighbouring country and accused them of being involved in conspiracy and acts to destabilize the sovereignty and integrity of India.

The NIA, on directions of the Union Home Ministry, registered a case against them as well as the organization named Dukhtaran-e-Millat, which is banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, in April this year.

According to the FIR, the "central government has received information that Aasiya Andrabi and her associates namely Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen are actively running a terrorist organization named as 'Dukhtaran-E-Millat' (DEM) which is proscribed under the First Schedule to the UAPA".

"They are using various media platforms to spread insurrectionary imputations and hateful speeches that endanger the integrity, security and sovereignty of India. DEM through Aasiya Andrabi openly advocates secession of Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India and has also called for Jihad and use of violence against India," the FIR alleged.

The agency also said in the FIR that Andrabi and her associates had spoken, written and also published "visible representations that bring into hatred and contempt apart from exciting disaffection towards the Government of India".

On July 6 this year, NIA clamped down on the pampered pro- Pakistani elements and arrested Aasiya Andrabi with her two associates Nahida Nasreen and Fehmeeda Sofi.

Andrabi was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police in Anantnag in April this year for allegedly planning to organize a large-scale demonstration and stone-pelting in the area. She was not released despite being granted bail by the court and was arrested in a different case.

The high court cancelled the bail of Andrabi and others in the case after police submitted its case diaries and the investigation was carried out.

It included the analysis of Andrabi's phone that purportedly showed that she was in constant touch with militant leaders across the border.

BACKGROUND:

Husband of Dukhtaran-e-Millat Chairperson Aasiya Andrabi’s husband and separatist Kashmiri leader Dr Ashiq Hussain Faktoo, alias Dr Muhammad Qasim Faktoo is in behind the bars for 26 years. He did PhD from the Department of Islamic Studies of the University of Kashmir while remaining in jail.