New Delhi: A Delhi court, on Wednesday, convicted Kashmiri separatist Asiya Andrabi and two of her associates in a terror case lodged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The three were arrested in April 2018 and have been in custody since.
Andrabi, chief of the banned Kashmiri terror outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DEM), was arrested for allegedly using various platforms to spread “insurrectionary imputations and hateful speeches” that endangered the integrity, security, and sovereignty of India, as reported by The Indian Express.
The matter was probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). In February 2021, the court had framed terrorism, sedition, UAPA and other charges against Andrabi and her two associates for allegedly waging war against the Government of India and conspiring to commit terror acts in the country.
The court had framed charges under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging war against the Government of India), 121-A (conspiracy to wage war against Government of India), 124-A (sedition), 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups), 153-B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration) and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the IPC.
Charges were also framed under sections 18 (conspires or attempts to commit, or advocates, abets, advises or incites terror act), 20 (being member of terrorist gang or organisation), 38 (offence relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) and 39 (offence relating to support given to a terrorist organisation) under UAPA Act.
Andrabi and her associates were involved in conspiracy to “severely destabilise the sovereignty and integrity of India”, the NIA said in its probe report. It was further claimed by the agency that through their activities on cyber space, the three were running a concerted campaign to solicit support of the Pakistani establishment, which included arranging support from terrorist entities from Pakistan.
The three allegedly used various media platforms to spread hateful speeches that endanger the integrity, security and sovereignty of India and that they openly advocated secession of Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India, the NIA claimed.
While the court took cognizance of these charges, it rejected the NIA’s plea to submit additional evidence against Andrabi and her associates through a supplementary chargesheet after final arguments in the trial had been concluded in September 2025.
A copy of the order is awaited.
