Our Work

We provide legal representation to regularly persecuted, vulnerable groups, conduct legal research & pursue constitutional remedies.

Litigation

The legal representation available within the economic means of those we work with is focused on maintaining the status quo of policing (as that ensures stable income for lawyers) and fails to challenge the structural underpinnings which facilitate continued legal prosecution.

We believe a multi-pronged approach to litigation with proactive engagement at the pre-bail and pre-trial stages, with respect to illegal detention, torture, investigation and evidence collection aspects help in better pursuit of justice.

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Research & Advocacy

We seek to document the structural and institutional modes of marginalisation and oppression against Vimukta communities to ensure that there is a public record and public discourse on the structural violence inflicted by the criminal justice system. There is very little data and analysis available regarding this and we aim to bridge that gap and set precedence for future studies.

Policy level changes and constitutional strategies are undertaken to bring systemic changes.

Wildlife Policing - The Reign of Criminalisation in the Forests of Madhya Pradesh

Policy Brief Release

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Report Release

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Panel Discussion

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Infographics

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Drunk on Power: Excise Policing in Madhya Pradesh

Report

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Excise Act & Targetting of DNTs

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हिंदी में

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Mahua and Vimukta Histories

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Report Release

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Advocacy

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The MP assembly has passed the addition of death penalty to the excise act without any discussion. This has serious implications for Vimukta communities who are regularly targeted under this law. We are working with community members and other civil society organisations to make recommendations and fight.

Countermapping Pandemic Policing

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Comic - English

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Comic - Axomiya

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Comic - Kannada

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Comic - Bengali

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Comic - Malayalam

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Comic - Gondi

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Comic - Marathi

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Comic - Hindi

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Comic - Punjabi

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Comic - Telugu

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Report Release

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Explainer

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Annual Vimukta Diwas Lecture

2023

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2022

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