The Union Home Ministry ordered a fresh FIR against Dukhtaran-E-Millat (DEM) chief Asiya Andrabi by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday for allegedly using “various media platforms to spread insurrectionist imputations and hateful speeches that endanger the integrity, security, and sovereignty of India,” reported The Indian Express.
DEM chairperson Andrabi is alleged to be involved in organising anti-India rallies and stone pelting on security forces in South Kashmir, the report said.
Andrabi’s bail was canceled by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court earlier this month as forces agencies moved to tighten the noose around her outfit DeM.
“Andrabi along with her associates namely Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen have been booked under various sections of IPC and UAPA that includes waging war, sedition, promoting enmity between different groups based on religion, criminal conspiracy,” the report quoting Home Ministry official said. While Nahida is the general secretary, Sofi is incharge of media in DeM.
The federal probe agency, probing terror financing cases against pro-freedom leaders in the valley, had last year also named Andrabi for receiving funds from Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed, to carry out stone pelting in the valley. However, the probe agency did not name Andrabi or Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Geelani in its charge sheet filed early this year.
