Aasiya Andrabi wanted Jammu-Kashmir to be merged with Pakistan, enjoying NIA hospitality for waging war against India
Srinagar, July 6: The NIA has at last clamped down on the pampered pro- Pakistani elements and has arrested Aasiya Andrabi, the Chairperson of banned Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) with her two associates, Nahida Nasreen and Fehmeeda Sofi. All three were shifted from Srinagar Central Jail to New Delhi by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), on Tuesday.
Aasiya Andrabi and her associates are arrested in connection with a case registered in April this year for allegedly waging war against the country and delivering hate speeches in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
In March, an FIR was registered against the activists of Dukhtaran-e-Millat for celebrating Pakistan Day (23rd March). The video of the event had gone viral on social media. The traitors also sang Pakistan’s National Anthem.
Andrabi is in a prison in Srinagar after the Jammu and Kashmir High Court cancelled her bail last month, is being brought here from Kashmir along with her associates Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen.
All three will be produced before a special NIA court later for custodial interrogation. The NIA, on directions of the Union Home Ministry, registered a case against them as well as the organisation, 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 one 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 prescribed 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".
The organisation is promoting enmity, hatred and ill-will between different communities on the grounds of religion and is doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony.
Andrabi has solicited help from proscribed terrorist organizations and along with her associates has entered into a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the Government of India, the FIR alleged.
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.
She was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police in Anantnag in April this year for allegedly planning to organise 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.