NIA files FIR against Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi: Report
The Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief and her associates are accused of endangering the integrity, security and sovereignty of India.
The National Investigation Agency has registered a case in New Delhi against Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi – the leader of the Dukhtaran-e-Millat outfit, or Daughters of Faith – for allegedly making hate speeches on media platforms, and endangering the integrity, security and sovereignty of India, Greater Kashmir quoted the agency’s Inspector General Alok Mittal as saying.
NIA’s decision came two days after the Ministry of Home Affairs ordered that fresh charges be filed against Andrabi, who was released from jail on bail in December after spending a few months in prison for alleged separatist activities. The Jammu and Kashmir High Court cancelled Andrabi’s bail earlier this month.
“The central government has received information that one Asiya Andrabi and her associates, namely Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen, are actively running a terrorist organisation named as Dukhtaran-e-Millat which is proscribed under the First Schedule to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967,” according to the First Information Report. “They are using various media platforms to spread insurrectionary imputations and hateful speeches that endanger the integrity, security and sovereignty of India.”
The agency has accused the pro-Pakistan leader and her associates of using “written and spoken words that bring into hatred and contempt apart from exciting disaffection towards the government of India”.
“DEM is promoting enmity, hatred and ill-will between different communities on the grounds of religion and is doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony,” the FIR reads. “Asiya Andrabi has solicited help from proscribed militant organisations and along with her associates has entered into a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the government of India.”