Let judge who convicted J&K separatist decide sentence: NIA court

A peculiar NIA tribunal successful Delhi connected Monday transferred the lawsuit against Kashmiri separatist Aasiya Andrabi backmost to the justice who had convicted her connected panic charges nether UAPA and for IPC offences arsenic well, holding that the “judge who delivered the condemnation indispensable besides determine the sentencing”.Special Judge Chanderjit Singh was transferred from the NIA tribunal to the Karkardooma courts successful Nov 2025 but arsenic the judgement successful the lawsuit was pending, helium took the lawsuit record with him for pronouncing the verdict.On Monday, peculiar justice (NIA) Prashant Sharma noted that Judge Chanderjit Singh, though present posted astatine Karkardooma Courts, had “extensively heard” the matter, including last arguments, and had “examined the grounds threadbare” earlier convicting the accused connected Jan 15.Judge Sharma recorded that helium joined the NIA tribunal aft Nov 20, 2025, whereas Judge Singh had been proceeding the lawsuit since 2024 and pronounced the blameworthy verdict connected Jan 14. Sharma besides noted helium received the lawsuit record lone aft Jan 16, by which clip last arguments had already been concluded earlier Judge Singh.The Delhi precocious court, successful an bid dated July 15, 2025, had ruled judges who reserve judgments indispensable pronounce them wrong weeks of their transfer.Andrabi who founded the all-women separatist radical Dukhtaraan-e-Millat (DeM) successful 1987, was arrested successful April 2018. The radical was subsequently banned.