NEW DELHI – An NIA court in Kochi on Saturday sentenced a woman from Biharto seven years in jail in the first Daesh case registered in Kerala.

The case is in connection with 15 persons from Kasargode district whotravelled to Afghanistan to join the terror group in 2016.

Yasmin Mohammed Zahid was arrested in Delhi July 30, 2016, when she on herway to leave for Afghanistan with her child.

The case was first registered by the Kerala Police in Kasargode. It waslater taken over by the National Investigation Agency.

The agency found evidence of the accused person’s activities through theirsocial media accounts. – Agencies