Shahid Azmi’s legacy lives on through lawyers he inspired. Sadly, so does the ideology that led to his murder

'After spending 12 years incarcerated, the two men that Faheem Ansari was really keen to meet as he stepped out of Bareilly Central Jail last November were Shaheed Azmi and Hemant Karkare. He couldn’t, of course, as both of them had fallen prey to bullets while he was in prison. While Karkare, then head of the Mumbai Anti Terrorism Squad, was shot dead during the 2008 attack on the city, Shahid, a lawyer, was assassinated by unidentified men at his office in Kurla, Mumbai, on February 11, 2010. The assailants had come posing as prospective clients...'

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