I have no connection with the 3 Hyderabadi men wanting to join ISIS

December 30, 2015 17:52

Kashmir separatist leader Asiya Andrabi has denied meeting three Hyderabad youth who allegedly wanted to join ISIS. Speaking to India Today TV Andrabi claimed that the case against her is false.

In the interview, the hardliner admitted that she had visited Hyderabad when former SIMI Chief Syed Salahuddin died last year. She further claimed that the visit to Hyderabad was only for humanitarian reasons.

The three Hyderabad youth, arrested for allegedly planning to join jihadi terror groups, aspired to meet the Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi using the name of their late uncle, former chief of Students Islamic Movement of India Syed Salahuddin, police said on Tuesday.

Andrabi is a leader of the separatist Kashmiri women's group Dukhtaran-e-Millat.

The trio, were picked up from Nagpur airport last week and arrested by Hyderabad police on December 27.

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