Srinagar, March 25 -- A special court of the National Investigation Agency in Delhi on Tuesday sentenced separatist leader Aasiya Andrabi to life imprisonment in connection with a 2018 Kashmir secession conspiracy case, while her associates Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen were awarded 30 years in jail along with fines.
The three women, linked to the banned organisation Dukhtaran-e-Millat, were arrested by the NIA in July 2018 after the agency registered a suo moto case in April the same year related to a secession conspiracy. The arrests were made in the run-up to the scrapping of the J&K's special status in 2019.
Andrabi, 63, a prominent separatist leader from Kashmir, is the founder and chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, an organisatio...