The NIA on Wednesday filed chargesheet against Aasiya Andrabi -- chief of the banned Dukhtaran-e-Millat, a separatist organisation, and her associates Sofi Fehmeeda and Naheeda Nasreen accusing them of waging war against the state and delivering hate speeches in Jammu and Kashmir.Filed in a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in the national capital, the chargesheet accused Andrabi and her associates of using various media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TV channels including channels in Pakistan to spread insurrectionary imputations and hateful messages and speeches against India.They are now lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail and are accused of actively running the Dukhtaran-e-Millat-- proscribed under the first Schedule to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. "Dukhtaran-e-Millat through Aasiya Andrabi and others openly advocates secession of Jammu and Kashmir from India and its merger with Pakistan through violent means. Andrabi promoted ill-will and enmity between different communities in India on the ground of religion," said the chargesheet.
The chargesheet accused Andrabi of having close contacts with designated global terrorist Hafeez Mohammad Saeed, head of outlawed Pakistan-based terror groups Jamaat-Ud-Dawah and Lashkar-e-Taiba.It said that Fehmeeda, as personal secretary to Andrabi and also press secretary of Dukhtaran-E-Millat, and Nasreen, as the general secretary of the organisation, have been instrumental in collecting funds to carry out terrorist activities. The NIA on April 27 registered a case against Andrabi, Fehmeeda and Nasreen under various sections of Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and arrested them on July 6.While filing the chargesheet, the NIA informed the court that investigation is continuing against the other members and associates of Dukhtaran-e-Millat which 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 terrorist organisations based in Pakistan.