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Surat: City police registered altogether five offences under the recently introduced Gujarat Land Grabbing (Prohibition) (GLGP) Act on Saturday. Total 14 accused were booked for allegedly encroaching land of different individuals in various police stations. The accused were booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code for forgery, threatening and trespassing.
“Victims of various land grabbing cases had approached the district collector office and after examining their grievances, a committee had ordered police to register these complaints. Afterwards, city police commissioner orders police stations concerned to register FIRs,” said a senior police official.
Investigation of these cases have been handed over to the assistant commissioner of police of different divisions.
Remembering Shahid Azmi, a life lost to valiant cause
From choosing to join a terror outfit, to being wrongly imprisoned under the anti-terrorism law, to becoming a champion of human rights, Shahid Azmi has left us a truly inspiring journey.
By Rasti Amena| Published: 11th February 2021 5:05 pm IST Shahid Azmi was also known as crusader of justice (Twitter)
Mumbai: Ten years ago today, a low-profile 33-year-old advocate Shahid Azmi, who fought for the people wrongly imprisoned under anti-terrorism law, was killed in Mumbai. He was shot by a group of gangsters at his office, who claimed that he was fighting the cases of terror accused.
Eleven years since advocate Shahid Azmi was killed
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Only three out of 107 witnesses have been examined and cross-examined so far.
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Only three out of 107 witnesses have been examined and cross-examined so far.
It has been 11 years since advocate Shahid Azmi was killed in his office for representing clients he believed to be falsely implicated in terror crimes. However, only three witnesses out of 107 have been examined and cross-examined in his own murder trial.
On February 11, 2010, Azmi was home at around 8 p.m. when his office boy told him that some clients were waiting for him at his office. Upon reaching his office, he saw two men waiting inside his cabin and two others waiting in the outside area. Azmi called the other two in and they shot him. The office boy immediately ran and called his mother to the office. She, along with others, took Azmi to a hospital where he was declared “brought dead”.