Aarti Singh  

A Delhi court on Friday sent Asiya Andrabi, leader of the allwomen Kashmiri banned outfit Dukhtaraan-e-Millat (DeM), and her two associates to 10 days of custody after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took their custody in Srinagar and brought them to the capital. The agency is probing Andrabi for anti-India activities.

In April, the NIA had registered a case against Andrabi, who propagated violence in the Kashmir Valley and sought secession of J&K from India through her hateful speeches, for sedition, waging war against India, criminal conspiracy and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

The NIA FIR said, The central government has received information that one Asiya Andrabi and her associates are running a terrorist organisation 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 that endanger the integrity, security and sovereignty of India. DeM openly advocates secession of J&K from India and has also called for jihad and use of violence.”

Andrabi had solicited help from proscribed terrorist organisations and along with her associates had entered into a criminal conspiracy to wage war against India, the FIR said.

Sources said her role in J&K terror funding will also be investigated.

Andrabi raided cyber cafes to threaten women, but uses Twitter freely now

Except for the eyes that peek through the slit of her burqa , the facial identity of the chief of the banned terror group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM), Syed Aasiya Andrabi remains a blind-spot, with not many people, including J&K police officers, who can claim to have seen her. In the last 30 years, having earned the dubious distinction of being the lone woman militant leader, Andrabi has been known only by her religious vigilantism and support of Pakistan and terror groups operating in Kashmir.

Andrabi, 55, was a member of Jamat-e-Islami’s women’s wing before she founded the group DeM (Daughters of the Nation), in 1985, which champions the agenda of Kashmir’s secession from India and merger with Pakistan. “She and her armed band of followers clad in burqas, used to raid cyber cafes, restaurants, beauty salons and other public places to threaten women who did not comply and wear burqa. The campaign for burqa led to other terror groups throwing acid and shooting at women wearing jeans in Kashmir,” Arshia, a blogger told TOI. Aasiya Andrabi has been freely using Twitter to run her social media campaign against India.

Courtesy: Times Group: 07072018