New Delhi, March 24 -- A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sentenced three operatives of the proscribed Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) terrorist organisation to imprisonment in connection with a 2018 Kashmir secession conspiracy case.
DeM is an all-women outfit with the declared objective of achieving secession of Kashmir from India.
Aasiya Andrabi alias Aasiyeh Andrabi alias Syedah Aasiya, the founder and Chairperson of Dukhtaran-E-Millat, has been sentenced to life imprisonment, while her accomplices, Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen, have been awarded 30 years in jail, along with fine. The three women were arrested in July 2018 by NIA, which had registered a suo moto case in April 2018.
The accused, all hailing fr...