New Delhi:A special NIA court remanded Dukhtaran-e-Millatchief AsiyaAndrabiand two others to 10 days custody.AsiyaAndrabi, chief of the Kashmiri women’s separatist group (DEM, and two of her associates were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for allegedly advocating the secession of Jammu and Kashmir and the use of violence against India.

Government officials said on condition of anonymity that the move was among recommendations made at a security review meeting held in New Delhi on March 3 that was chaired by National Security Advisor AjitDoval and attended by home secretary Rajiv Gauba, Intelligence Bureau director Rajiv Jain, NIA director YC Modi, J&K police chief SP Vaid and additional director general (law and order) Munir Ahmed Khan.

Andrabi is the founder of DEM, a separatist organisation formed in 1987 and described by the home ministry as a proscribed outfit.She is also the wife of HizbulMujahideen commander-turned-Hurriyat leader QasimFaktoo, who has been in jail since 1993.

“The allegations against the accused persons are that they have been using various media platforms to spread insurrectionary imputations and hateful speeches that advocate use of violence against India and secession of Jammu & Kashmir from the Union of India. AsiyaAndrabi and her associates have written and spoken words and published visible representations that excite disaffection towards the Government of India and promote enmity, hatred and ill-will between different communities on the grounds of religion,” said NIA spokesperson Alok Mittal.

DEM was named in a earlier NIA case in which Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and HizbulMujahideensupremo Syed Salahuddin were also charged.