Teaching
Courses
Education
- BA LLB (Hons), University of Allahabad
- LLM, ILS Pune
Profile
Madhur is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Women and the Law (CWL) at NLSIU. At CWL, she is working on a project that seeks to identify the gaps in the implementation of laws addressing violence against women. She has previously worked with Quill Foundation, where she served as the Project Coordinator of the Counter-terrorism research project, a pilot study in the State of Maharashtra which sought to map patterns of prosecution in alleged cases of terrorism. Over the last decade, her engagement with the criminal justice system in India has involved an exploration into the operationalisation of laws and their impact on communities. She has engaged with and contributed to the work done by collectives working on miscarriage of justice and wrongful prosecutions in India, legal aid organisations in central India, regional and international human rights advocacy coalitions, statutory bodies for human rights and minorities, and a pan-India human rights lawyers’ network, through research, documentation, advocacy and litigation.
Research Interest
- Anti-terror laws,
- Miscarriage of justice,
- Wrongful prosecution,
- Gender and law
Publications
Media:
- Aiman Khan, Madhur Bharatiya, In India, the otherization of Muslims mines citizenship at the foundations: of exclusion, excesses and abdication, Polis Project, May 2020.
- Ishita Chakrabarty, Madhur Bharatiya, The vulnerable protestor, Indian Express, December 2020.
- Madhur Bharatiya, One year of police brutality in Jamia and AMU, Detention Solidarity Network blog, January 2021 (in Hindi).
- Fawaz Shaheen, Madhur Bharatiya, Supreme Court must stop wanton abuse of UAPA, Leaflet, June 2021.
- Aiman Khan, Madhur Bharatiya, Mumbai 7/11 and the trauma of the accused, Indian Express, July 2021.
- Madhur Bharatiya, Short commentary on the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2024, NLS Blog, August 2024.
Reports:
- Quill Foundation, Presuming Guilt: A Study Highlighting Patterns of Prosecution and Trial in ‘Naxal’ Cases in Gadchiroli 2002-2015 (2024)(Lead Author)
Book Chapter:
- Bharatiya Madhur, Shaheen Fawaz, “Waiting to be Free: National Security Regime and Prolonged Incarceration in India.” Politics of Waiting and an Expanding Horizon: The Social, Political, and Legal Discourses in India, edited by Debangana Chatterjee & Sarasu Thomas, Routledge 2026 (Accepted for publication).