more-inHabibullah Badsha (1933 – 2017) was born in an illustrious family and was apprenticed to an illustrious lawyer. For several decades, that trio — SGS, A.C. Muthanna and Badsha — were a combination hard to beat. Badsha was steeped in the mould of his senior. He held every important law office, and in each he ensured that fairness overrode partisanship, and public interest trumped officialdom and politics. When he took on a public interest case, he made sure that he gave to it the same amount of prodigious labour and interest as a paying brief.

Source: The Hindu November 25, 2017 18:22 UTC