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A human right activist, a RTI activist or a local social worker, this is S.Q. Masood, fondly called as Masood Bhai, for you. Born in a family of a policeman in the South Hyderabad Masood. “Being educated and well versed with the system is a plus point for me and a reason for people to come and take guidance from me,” says Masood.

Bringing down the sufferings of the people has become a motto of his life as he tries to serve the people. “I help the people in taking their issues directly to officials instead of brokers or middlemen,” says Masood.

It is one of the reasons for him to file over 200 RTI applications in various government departments. “It helps in speedy completion of various works. In old city the officials are not used to it. I made them habituated to it and educated the local people about RTI,” he says.

Associated with several civil society organisation in India, S.Q.Masood actively working on Minority Rights, Peace, Communal Harmony and Civil Rights. Co-Founder of an Hyderabad based NGO ASEEM www.aseemindia.org working on the Advocacy, Research and Legal Intervention on issues concerning rights and entitlements of vulnerable people in the state of Telangana. Masood also founded an open platform called "The Democracy Dialogue" www.democracydialogue.in.

Masood filed several Public Interest Litigations (PILs) in the High Court of Telangana and Supreme Court of India on issued of deprivation of social security benefits of poor and vulnerable people. His PIL in Supreme Court of India against deletion of 20 lakh Ration Cards / Food Security cards by the government of Telangana

Apart from above, Masood has challenged used of facial recognition technology FRT by the Hyderabad police for policing purpose as illegal and violates right to privacy of the people, this is a first case filed in Indian court against used of FRT.