NIA files chargesheet against Aasiya, others

The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday filed a charge sheet against Aasiya Andrabi, Sofi Fehmeeda and Naheeda Nasreen of Dukhtaran-e-Millat in the Court of Special Judge NIA, Patiala House, New Delhi.

Inspector general of police NIA Alok Mittal said that Aasiya, chairperson Dukhtaran-E-Millat (DEM) and her associates Sofi Fehmeeda and Naheeda Nasreen  and others were “actively running a militant organisation Dukhtaran-e-Millat which is proscribed under the First Schedule to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967”. He said the DeM is engaged in “anti-India activities and has been inciting the general populace of Kashmir for an armed rebellion against the Government of India with aid and assistance of militant organisations based in Pakistan”.

   

He said that the above accused were using various platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TV channels including channels in Pakistan “to spread insurrectionary imputations and hateful messages and speeches against India”. 

The DeM, Mittal said, openly advocates secession of Jammu & Kashmir from the Union of India and its merger with Pakistan “through violent means”.

The IGP said Aasiya, Fehmeeda and Naheeda were arrested by the NIA on  6 July 2018 and are since lodged in Tihar Jail, Delhi.

HE said Asiya is promoting “ill-will and enmity between different communities in India on ground of religion”. 

“Investigation has also established that she has close contacts with designated Global militant Hafeez Mohammad Saeed who is head of Jamaat-Ud-Dawah (JuD) and Lashkar-E-Toiba (LeT), internationally designated militant organisations that are based in Pakistan,” he said. 

“These organisations are also proscribed under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. She has used public platforms to incite youth of Kashmir to rise in armed insurrection against the Government of India with an object of achieving cessation of Kashmir from India and its merger with Pakistan.”

Mittal said investigation have established that Sofi Fehmeeda and Naheeda have been “instrumental in use of social media and other platforms to abet waging of war against the Indian Government besides spreading seditious and insurrectionary imputations against it, and are promoting ill-will and enmity between different communities in India on grounds of religion. They have collected funds to carry out militant activities of Dukhtaran-e-Millat”.

“They have used public platforms to incite youth of Kashmir to rise in armed rebellion against the Government of India with an object of securing secession of Kashmir from India and its merger with Pakistan,” he said.

He said further investigation against the other members and associates of Dukhtaran-e-Millat was in progress.

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