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Tehseen Poonawalla (born May 1981) is an Indian activist and columnist.

Personal life
Tehseen Poonawalla was born in Pune, Maharashtra in May 1981. He is married to Monicka Vadera and they have a son named Zurvan. He is the older brother of Shehzad Poonawalla.

Political activism
In July 2012, Tehseen Poonawalla filed a complaint with the National Commission for Women (NCW) against Mumbai Assistant Commissioner of Police Vasant Dhoble for the wrongful detention of 4 women. At the time, Dhoble was on a moral crusade against the Mumbai night life. On 30 March 2012, Dhoble had allegedly detained 4 German women and accused them of being prostitutes. Later, the NCW ordered a probe into the incident.

On 12 August 2016, Tehseen Poonawalla filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court of India seeking a ban on cow vigilante groups.

On 17 July 2017, Tehseen Poonawalla, alongwith Prakash Ambedkar, Shehla Rashid, and Shehzad Poonawalla released a draft law named Manav Suraksha Kanoon (MASUKA). The bill aims to rectify that fact that India does not have a specific law against mob lynchings. The bill has been prepared by the National Campaign Against Mob Lynching (NCAML).

In early 2018, Tehseen Poonawalla and journalist B. S. Lone filed petitions with the Supreme Court seeking an independent probe into the sudden death of Justice Brijgopal Harkishan Loya. On 19 April 2018, the Supreme dismissed the petitions after deciding the such a probe to be unnecessary.

On 18 April 2019, Tehseen Poonawalla filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India seeking to debar Pragya Singh Thakur from contesting in the 2019 Indian general election. She was under trial in the 2008 Malegaon bombings as principal conspirator.

In August 2019, Poonawalla approached the Supreme Court seeking the release of Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah who had been arrested after the abrogation of Article 370. He also challenged the lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir under Article 19 and 21 of the Constitution.

In 2018, Supreme Court ordered states to take measures to curb incidents of mob lynching.

Controversies
In August 2016, a FIR was filed against Tehsheen Poonawalla and singer Vishal Dadlani for allegedly mocking Jain monk Tarun Sagar. Tarun Sagar had addressed the Haryana Legislative Assembly on 29 August 2016 in a state of nudity, as it is traditional among Digambar monks. The FIR was filed by Haryana BJP co-convener Puneet Arora in Ambala under Section 153A, 295A and 509 of the Indian Penal Code.