The alleged Indian recruiter for ISIS terror outfit, Afsha Jabeen alias ‘Nicky Joseph’, was sent to 10 days police custody on Tuesday.

The woman was sent to police custody by a local court in Hyderabad.

Afsha was on September 12 sent to 14-day judicial custody by a Hyderabad court.

Afsha Jabeen, alias ‘Nicky Joseph’, who hails from Tolichowki area but had been portraying herself as a British national while luring youth for ISIS through social media, was deported by the UAE after which she was arrested by Cyberabad police.

She was produced before the magistrate at his residence here and was sent to judicial custody.

The 37-year-old woman was deported along with husband and children, officials had earlier said.

Jabeen was tracked in Abu Dhabi and after initial questioning. She was deported to Hyderabad where sleuths took her custody at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport and questioned her. Police then arrested her and registered a case against her.

According to Cyberabad Police, she is a co-accused in the case involving Salman Mohiuddin, also from Hyderabad, who was arrested in January this year at the airport when he was preparing to board a flight to Dubai on way to Syria via Turkey.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted an interim relief to Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti in a domestic violence and attempt to murder case filed by his wife.

The interim protection from arrest until Thursday, 17 September, was granted to Bharti by a bench of Justices BD Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva after his counsel, senior advocate Dayan Krishnan, informed the court that the matter is urgent and there is every chance of his arrest.

Krishnan, assisted by advocate Vijay Aggarwal, had also told the court that immediately after rejection of his anticipatory bail; a non-bailable warrant was issued against the former Delhi Law Minister.

Bharti’s counsel mentioned his plea before the high court earlier today after a trial court dismissed his petition seeking anticipatory bail and another court issued an NBW against him.

AAP, meanwhile, asked Bharti to surrender before police. Sources said the party was upset with Bharti as it is unable to contact him.

“We are trying to contact him, but are not able to. We advise him to surrender before police,” said AAP leader Ashutosh.

Party sources, meanwhile, said that Bharti’s “remaining incommunicado” was sending a wrong signal as AAP has been maintaining the stand that Delhi Police have been victimising its MLAs by arresting them.

Three AAP MLAs – former law minister Jitendra Singh Tomar, Manoj Kumar and Surinder Singh – have faced arrest by Delhi Police.

Earlier, Bharti’s plea for anticipatory bail was rejected by Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Sanjay Garg observing that it was the second complaint lodged against the MLA by his wife Lipika Mitra, who has alleged that he did not mend his conduct despite assurance before Crime Against Women Cell of the police.

In a critique of Vice President Hamid Ansari’s recent speech on the need for “affirmative action” for Muslim empowerment, an article in RSS mouthpiece ‘Panchjanya’ has accused him of speaking like a “communal Muslim leader”.

It said instead of projecting Muslims as victims of discrimination, Ansari should “tell them the truth about how Muslim radicalism is preventing them from integrating with the society”.

The article attacks Vice President’s take that Muslims in India face the challenges of identity, security, education and empowerment.

“There was much dejection in the much-talked speech by Hamid Ansari at All-India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, as it comes across as one made by a communal Muslim leader. The Vice President is expected not to talk preferentially of one community but to speak of benefits for all. But these elements are missing from his speech,” the article says.

The piece goes on to cite radical Muslim outfits like ISIS, Taliban and Boko Haram to say Islam and modernity are “poles apart”.

“Islam and modernity are like two poles that can never meet but leaders like Ansari will never tell Muslims that,” it says.

It says that the VP’s speech “doesn’t reflect any sense of self introspection” and added only he can explain “how a religion keen on implementing 1400 year old rules can be described as modern”.

On the issue if identity, it said,”Secular India has paid a heavy price to maintain Muslim religious identity… Uniform Civil Code was not implemented… Muslim Personal Law has distorted India’s secular character but no Muslim leader speaks of these facilities which they treat as a right.”