NEW DELHI, Jan. 15 -- A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted Kashmiri separatist Asiya Andrabi and two others under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for hatching a conspiracy to wage war against the country and heading a terrorist organisation. Andrabi, founder of the banned all-women separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DEM), and her associates Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen were arrested in 2018 on charges of running a terrorist organisation and using various media platforms to spread insurrectionary imputations and hate speeches that endanger the integrity, security and sovereignty of India. Hearing the matter on Wednesday, additional sessions judge Chanderjit Singh found them guilty of offences under UAPA sections 18 (punishment for conspiracy) and 38 (offence relating to membership of a terrorist organisation). The three were also convicted under several penal sections pertaining to promoting enmity between different groups, imputations and assertions prejudicial to national integration, conspiracy to wage war against the government and criminal conspiracy. All the three convicts were produced physically before Singh, now posted at the Karkardooma Court, amid tight security. A detailed copy of the judgment was not available at the time of going to print. The matter will now be heard next on January 17 when the arguments on the quantum of sentence will be heard. The NIA had lodged a case against Andrabi, her associates and their organisation, DEM, in April 2018 on the directions of the Union home ministry.They were formally charged by a special NIA judge of Patiala House Court in February 2021, following which they pleaded not guilty and were put on trial. In its first information report, NIA had accused the Andrabi and her organisation of openly advocating secession of Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India and calling for jihad and violent activities against India. According to the FIR, the "central government has received information that Aasiya Andrabi and her associates namely Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen are actively running a terrorist organisation named as DeM which is proscribed under the First Schedule to the UAPA". The federal agency had alleged that Andrabi, along with her associates, had also solicited help from other terrorist organisations and entered into a criminal conspiracy to wage a war against the country. She was further accused of writing and publishing visible representations that spread hatred and contempt towards the Indian government. Before being taken into NIA's custody, Andrabi was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in Anantnag in April 2018, wherein she was accused of planning large-scale demonstrations and subsequent stone-pelting incidents in the area....