Faculty

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:

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).