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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Siraj Mehfuz Daud<br />
| image = Justice S.M. Daud.jpg<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = Daud speaking at a seminar on 8 May 2006<br />
| birth_name = <br />
| birth_date = 1 January 1931<br />
| birth_place = <br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|05|10|1931|01|01|df=y}} <br />
| death_place = [[Nagpur]]<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| other_names = <br />
| known_for = High court judge in [[Bombay]]<br />
| occupation = Lawyer<br />
}}<br />
'''Siraj Mehfuz Daud''', or '''S.M. Daud''' (1 January 1931 – 10 May 2010) was a lawyer who became a judge in the high court of [[Bombay]], India.<br />
After retirement he participated in several tribunals investigating human rights problems.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Siraj Mehfuz Daud was born on 1 January 1931. He attended [[Nagpur University]] earning an M.A. in Political Science. He then obtained an LL.B. degree and served as a district pleader in Nagpur from 1951 to 1954.{{sfn|Shah, Mohit S. et al. 2010|p=1}} <br />
In September 1954 Daud became a Civil Judge, Junior Division and a Judicial Magistrate First Class at [[Amravati]] in the [[Vidarbha]] region.<br />
In February 1968 he was promoted to Assistant Judge.{{sfn|Bombay High Court}}<br />
In August 1974 he was promoted to District Judge, and in January 1982 he became a Selection Grade District Judge.{{sfn|Shah, Mohit S. et al. 2010|p=1}}<br />
He also worked for the Government of Maharashtra as Deputy and Joint Secretary in the [[Mantralaya, Mumbai|Mantralaya]] Law & Judicial Department.{{sfn|Shah, Mohit S. et al. 2010|p=6}}<br />
He was Registrar of the high court of Bombay from December 1982 to July 1985, when he was appointed to the bench of the high court, serving until January 1993.{{sfn|Shah, Mohit S. et al. 2010|p=1}}<br />
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==Post-retirement==<br />
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After retiring, Justice Daud became a Senior Advocate working in the [[Supreme Court of India]].{{sfn|Shah, Mohit S. et al. 2010|p=1}}<br />
[[Hosbet Suresh]] and Daud were appointed to investigate the Bombay riots that had taken place in December 1992 and January 1993, publishing their findings in a 1995 report titled ''The People's Verdict''.{{sfn|RIGHT TO FOOD}}<br />
Daud headed an [[Indian People's Tribunal]] Enquiry into the Proposed Maroli-Umbergaon Port Project (Gujarat), issuing a report in April 2000.{{sfn|Daud|2000}}<br />
He served on a tribunal of the International Human Rights Commission that inquired into communal rioting and other disturbance in Mumbai in 1992-93.{{sfn|Shah, Mohit S. et al. 2010|p=8}}<br />
After conducting this inquiry, S.M. Daud was invited to speak at a meeting of Muslims and social workers in September 2001.<br />
Rather than talk about the [[Shiv Sena]] and the police, who had been indicted in his report, he took the opportunity to harshly criticize his audience for complaining about abuses they had suffered but failing to speak out against abuses against other oppressed communities such as Dalits and Christians.{{sfn|Muslims attacked for silence}}<br />
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The [[Sardar Sarovar Dam]] project on the [[Narmada River]] in [[Gujarat]] was highly controversial, involving displacement of many people.<br />
In 1994 S.M. Daud visited the area and wrote a report for the [[Indian People's Tribunal]]. He described the indiscriminate arrests, beatings, confinements and prohibitory orders to which local opponents of the project were being subjected.<br />
He warned that unless these abuses ceased the victims could take to arms.{{sfn|Byrne|Glover|Martinez|2002|p=88}}<br />
He participated with retired justices [[Rajendra Sachar]] and [[Hosbet Suresh]] in an investigation by the [[Indian People's Human Rights Tribunal]] into a massive [[Slum clearance in India|slum clearance]] drive in Mumbai, with the ostensible purpose of preserving the [[Sanjay Gandhi National Park]].{{sfn|Sachar|2004|p=121}}<br />
In August 2000 the judges, joined by former Supreme Court judge [[V. R. Krishna Iyer]], held a two-day hearing into the clearances in which about 60,000 people had been evicted.<br />
The inquiry covered both legal aspects of the clearances and the human impact.{{sfn|Express News Service|2000}}<br />
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In March 2002, at the ceremony where the 21st journalism for human rights award was presented by the [[People's Union for Civil Liberties]], S.M. Daud criticized the [[Supreme Court of India]] for wrongly convicting writer and activist [[Arundhati Roy]]. He said that in a democracy all institutions should be open for criticism including the Supreme Court.{{sfn|SC should be open to criticism}}<br />
Roy had been charged with contempt by the Supreme Court after organizing a demonstration against a court decision that removed obstacles to raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam.{{sfn|Venkatesan|Muralidharan|2001}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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*{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Bombay High Court}} |url=http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/libweb/judges/Daud%20S.M..html<br />
|publisher=Bombay High Court<br />
|title=Honourable Mr. Justice Siraj Mohfuz Daud <br />
|access-date=2012-04-22}}<br />
*{{cite web |url=http://www.gujaratplus.com/environment/umargam/report.html<br />
|first=S. M. |last=Daud<br />
|publisher=The Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights<br />
|title=An Independent Enquiry into the Proposed Maroli-Umbergaon Port Project (Gujarat)<br />
|date=April 2000 <br />
|access-date=2012-04-22}}<br />
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d6EJpqeeteAC&pg=PA88<br />
|title=Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy<br />
|first1=John |last1=Byrne |first2=Leigh |last2=Glover |first3=Cecilia |last3=Martinez<br />
|publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=2002 |isbn=0765807513}}<br />
*{{cite journal |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/Storyold/157800/<br />
|journal=[[Indian Express]]<br />
|title=2-day public hearing under judicial tribunal<br />
|last=Express News Service<br />
|date=5 August 2000 <br />
|access-date=2012-04-22}} <br />
*{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Muslims attacked for silence}} |url=http://www.mid-day.com/news/2001/sep/15635.htm<br />
|work=Mid Day<br />
|title=Muslims attacked for silence<br />
|date=2001-09-24<br />
|access-date=2012-04-22}}<br />
{{cite web |ref={{harvid|RIGHT TO FOOD}}<br />
|url=http://www.iptindia.org/wp-content/pdf/report/ipt_pds.pdf<br />
|date=March 2010<br />
|title=RIGHT TO FOOD: An Inquiry into the Public Distribution System in Mumbai<br />
|publisher=[[Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights]]<br />
|access-date=2012-04-23}}<br />
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLNui8zW0IoC&pg=PA121<br />
|title=Human Rights: Perspectives and Challenges<br />
|first=Rajindar |last=Sachar<br />
|publisher=Gyan Books |year=2004 |isbn=8121208300}}<br />
*{{cite web |ref={{harvid|SC should be open to criticism}} |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2002-03-24/bangalore/27123050_1_hc-judge-pucl-human-rights<br />
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103111033/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2002-03-24/bangalore/27123050_1_hc-judge-pucl-human-rights<br />
|url-status=dead<br />
|archive-date=3 January 2013<br />
|title=SC should be open to criticism: HC judge<br />
|date=24 March 2002<br />
|work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2012-04-22}}<br />
*{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Shah, Mohit S. et al. 2010}} |url=http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/libweb/references/pdf/S.M.Daud.pdf<br />
|publisher=Bombay High Court<br />
|title=Addresses on the late Shri Justice Siraj Mehfuz Daud<br />
|author=Shah, Mohit S.|date=13 July 2010 |access-date=2012-04-22|display-authors=etal}}<br />
*{{cite journal |url=http://www.flonnet.com/fl1817/18170910.htm |journal=Frontline |title=Of contempt and legitimate dissent |first1=V. |last1=Venkatesan |first2=SUKUMAR |last2=Muralidharan |volume=18 |issue=17 |date=18–31 August 2001 |access-date=2012-04-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220161858/http://www.flonnet.com/fl1817/18170910.htm |archive-date=20 February 2012 |df=dmy-all }}<br />
{{refend}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{cite web |url=http://www.iptindia.org/wp-content/pdf/report/The-Bargi-Dam-Report.pdf<br />
|title=The Bargi (Rani Avantibai Sagar) Project<br />
|author=Justice S.M. Daud<br />
|publisher=Indian People’s Tribunal on Environment & Human Rights<br />
|access-date=2012-04-22}}<br />
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