Shahid Azmi, played by Rajkumar Rao, is shown to be a young boy, living with his family in a small one-room apartment. The Bombay riots leave him disturbed and he goes on to join a militant training centre across the border. There he is shown half-heartedly participating in arms training, till he loses his nerve on seeing a fellow trainee being executed on allegations of being a ‘traitor’. So, he runs back home as fast as legs can carry. On his return, he is picked up the police. He is booked under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 (“TADA”). Then follows a journey of torture, judicial delays and a long period of incarceration. It is during his time in prison that Shahid chances upon Ghulam Nabi War and Professor Saxena, who wean him away from the ‘radical’ and dodgy inmates, and push him towards completing his education. Upon his release, Shahid obtains his law degree and enters the profession which would end up defining his short life.
This movie looks at the sensitive subject of faith-based profiling and wrongful arrests in terror cases. Shahid is shown as a lawyer who attempts to live by the letter of the law, one who has immense faith in the tenets of law and one who recognizes the importance of sound, capable legal representation for those wrongly accused in terror cases. His …show more content…
Mohammed Atik & others , the court examined the TADA Act. Section 15(1) of the TADA Act specifically deals with the ‘admissibility of confession’ which has been made to a police officer, the section lays down the following stipulation- (1) of the TADA Act for admissibility of confession made to a police officer are: (1) that the confession should have been made to a police officer not lower in rank than a Superintendent of Police, (2) it should have been recorded by the said police officer, (3) the trial should be against the maker of the confession and (4) such trial must be for an offence under TADA or the Rules framed