Medha Deo

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Medha heads the Fair Trial Programme, an initiative to provide legal representation to undertrial prisoners in Pune and Nagpur under Project 39A, NLU, Delhi. A lawyer by training and interventionist by vocation, her work also draws in from her experience of working on government programmes for survivors of gender based violence at RCI-VAW and documenting cases of custodial deaths as an Access to Justice Fellow at TISS, Mumbai.


Areas of expertise

Access to justice


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Articles by Medha Deo


An image of a police station-criminal laws

January 9, 2025
How India’s new criminal laws curb civil liberties
From introducing vague offences to increasing police powers, India's new criminal laws, touted as a means to 'decolonise' the criminal justice system, achieve anything but.
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