NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the stand of the NIA on appeals by hardline separatist Aasiya Andrabi and her two associates challenging their conviction for conspiring to wage war against India and being members of a terrorist organisation under stringent anti-terror law UAPA.
Andrabi (62), the founder of the all-women separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) in 1987, and her close aides — Nahida Nasreen (58), and Sofi Fehmeeda (48)– were convicted by the special NIA court on January 14, which said the trio had orchestrated a systematic campaign to destabilise J-K.
On March 24, the trial court awarded life imprisonment to Andrabi, while Fehmeeda and Nasreen received a 30-year prison sentence.