Asiya Andrabi may be grilled for luring Hyderabad youths to ISIS

HYDERABAD: The name of Asiya Andrabi, the Kashmiri separatist group leader of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, figured during investigation in an ISIS radicalisation case in Hyderabad, but was left out in the chargesheet filed by SIT in 2017 citing lack of evidence.

City Special Investigation Team police said they would verify and question her again in the wake of the arrest by National Investigation Agency for alleged terror links.

SIT in 2017 chargesheeted four ISIS terror suspects including India handler Shafi Armar on the charges of waging war against the nation.

Three Hyderabad youth who tried to flee to Syria with the help of Pro-Pakistani Kashmiri separatists were arrested in December 2015 with the help of Maharashtra ATS in Nagpur airport when they were about board a flight to Srinagar. The trio from Hyderabad were Abdul Basith, Maaz Hasan Farooq and Syed Omer Farooq Hussaini and they were chargesheeted along with Shafi Armar.

CCS DCP Avinash Mohanty told TOI, “with the latest arrested by NIA, we will send teams to verify her role again in our case. We will try to grill her again in the wake of findings of NIA. Her name did appear in the chargesheet but she is not named as accused as there was no evidence at that point of time. We will again verify it now.” Abdul Basith was the nephew of former Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) president Salahuddin, who died in a road mishap in Nalgonda.

While three accused youth are out on conditional bail, fourth accused Shafi Armar is absconding and was earlier believed to be in Syria.

In 2014, the trio were in touch with Shafi Armar through online chats. Later, they began depended on cadres of Kashmiri separatist outfits and police found provocative videos about Babri Masjid demolition, Gujarat riots, Kashmir issue on the tab used by the accused. The accused told police that they aspired to meet the Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi using the name of their late uncle, former chief, of SIMI Syed Salahuddin. It was alleged that they met when Asiya came to Nalgonda to attend the funeral of Salahuddin.