Agencies
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today took custody of chief of the banned Dukhtaraan-e-Milat, Aasiya Andrabi, and two others in connection with a case registered for allegedly waging war against the country and delivering hate speeches in Jammu and Kashmir.
NIA said, Andrabi, who is in a prison in Srinagar is being brought to Delhi 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 registered a case against them as well as the organisation, which is banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, in April this year.
Later court handed them over to the National Investigating Agency, NIA, for 10-day custodial interrogation by a Delhi court in connection with a case of allegedly waging war against the country.
They were produced before District and Sessions Judge Poonam Bamba, who allowed the NIA’s plea that Aasiya, who is chief of the banned outfit Dukhtaran-e-Milat, was required to be quizzed for hate speeches over a period in the Kashmir Valley.
The case was registered against the three women in April this year.
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.