Shahid Azmi

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Shahid Azmi (1977 – 11 February 2010) was an Indian lawyer and human rights activist. He is occasionally referred to as "Shaheed Shahid Azmi" – "The Martyr Shahid Azmi" – because of his assassination. Azmi was accused of crime at a young age; in 1992, aged 15, he was arrested for violence during the 1992 Bombay riots. Let off lightly as a juvenile, and due to lack of any proper evidence against him, as a young adult, he was again arrested, this time under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, for plotting against the state. He spent seven years in Delhi's Tihar Jail. There, he was encouraged to resume his education, and by the time he was released, he had pursued a degree in law. In 2003, he began practising as a criminal defense lawyer in Mumbai. The cases handled by him were almost exclusively of defending cases for those accused of terrorism, who he believed had been jailed as scapegoats. He was shot dead by four assailants in his office in Kurla, Mumbai on 11 February...

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