About Us

Defend The Rights Of All People Nationwide.

Nyay Neeti Foundation (NNF) is a non-profit Organization registered under section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013, aiming to provide free and effective legal aid to marginalized and vulnerable communities through the existing legal system. We are a collective of lawyers who endeavour to advance the social, economic, and political rights of the citizens by seeking remedies before various Courts/Tribunals and governments; in addition, we conduct fact-findings, research, and legal awareness, and train lawyers passionate about human rights litigation. Our core areas of work will be on Women’s Rights, Child Rights, Dalit Rights, Labour Rights, Right to Housing, Right to Food, Criminal Justice, anti-trafficking, Prisoner’s Rights, Health Rights, Environment Justice, and Climate Change, amongst other things. Above all, our main goal is the empowerment of vulnerable communities by providing equitable and affordable access to the justice delivery system. We believe that the contemporary legal structure is exclusionary due to limited access. We intend to strive to fill the widening gap between the Bench and the Public. NNF will closely work with former Judges, lawyers, academicians, and public-spirited individuals who work to see a society that upholds the true spirit of the Indian Constitution and Human Rights. Currently, we are functioning in Delhi, and with your help strives to extend to other parts of the country.

Meet our Team

Anupradha Singh

Co-Founder

  • anupradha@nyayneetifoundation.org

Fidel Sebastian

Co-Founder

  • fidel@nyayneetifoundation.org

K.R Shiyas

Co-Founder

  • shiyas@nyayneetifoundation.org

Organizational Structure

NNF is committed to fostering an inclusive and democratic workspace where every member feels comfortable in expressing their views and opinions regarding the daily functioning of the firm. We believe in a non-hierarchical way of functioning, therefore, all efforts will be taken to treat every member of our team as an equal having an equal say in the Organisation.

NNF strongly believes in diversity within the organization as it helps to create an environment where staff with underrepresented identities feel meaningfully included. This also benefits NNF through the exchange of different skills, life experiences and perspectives and ensures a clear understanding of the legal issues and leads to improved decision-making. People thrive and are more innovative in working environments that are free from racism, bias, and discrimination. Only such an organization will thrive as a democratic space which stands for the people’s rights.

Financial Information

The cost of litigation, Administration and other organizational activities solely depends upon the donations received from the Lawyers Community, former Judges, Public Spirited Individuals, Philanthropic Initiatives and the general public.  We will upload financial details of our organisation on a half yearly basis.

Board of Advisors

  • Justice Kurian Joseph, Former Justice at the Supreme Court of India.
  • KK Venugopal, Senior Advocate & Former Attorney General of India.
  • Sanjay Parikh, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India.
  • C.U Singh, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India.
  • Anjana Prakash, Former Justice at the Patna High Court.
  • PV Dinesh, Advocate at the Supreme Court of India & Co-Founder of Live Law. in
  • Mihir Desai, Senior Advocate at the High Court of Bombay.
  • Prof. Dr Anoop Surendranath, Director, Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi.

NNF was envisioned as a group of lawyers banding together with the objective of defending and furthering the ideals of the Constitution of India.

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Anupradha Singh

Co-Founder

  • anupradha@nyayneetifoundation.org

Anupradha Singh

  • anupradha@nyayneetifoundation.org

Anupradha Singh is a lawyer, practising before the Supreme Court, the Delhi High Court, and the District Courts of Delhi. (Read more) Ms Singh has worked for over 4 years on various issues such as the Right to Housing, Environment Justice and Climate Change, Dalit Rights, Right to Food, Criminal Justice, Women’s Rights, Labour Rights, anti-trafficking, and Covid relief amongst other things. Ms Singh was also appointed as an Assistant Director and project coordinator of the Environment Justice and Climate Change initiative of SLIC in 2021 and organized/co-organized training/consultations/webinars on Climate Change. Ms Singh further led fact-finding teams on coal mining in Odisha, the Glacier bust in Uttarakhand & destruction of the Gulf of Mannar for the construction of a thermal power plant in Tamil Nadu. 

She has been involved in some of the notable cases of the decade like Ajay Maken V. Union of India (Right to Housing), Koili Devi v. Union of India (against starvation deaths), In re: Problems and Miseries of Migrant labourers, Jai Bhagwan v. State of Haryana (against the social boycott of the Dalit community in Hissar, Haryana), Municipal Corp. of Greater Mumbai vs Worli Koliwada (against coastal road project in Mumbai), Bandhua Mukti Morcha v. Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (seeking 3 meals a day for the homeless in Shelter homes of Delhi), etc.

Fidel Sebastian

Co-Founder

  • fidel@nyayneetifoundation.org

Fidel Sebastian

  • fidel@nyayneetifoundation.org
Fidel Sebastian is a Labour Lawyer and a former legal partner with the UNHCR. He graduated from the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and did his Master law in International trade and economic law from Amity University in 2016. He has 6 years of experience in litigation the majority of which has been before the High Court of Delhi. Most of his work involves Industrial disputes and service matters which have been handled exclusively from the employee or workman’s side. He has also worked with the UNHCR (the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) for close to a year as a legal partner attached to the Socio-Legal Information Centre.

K.R Shiyas

Co-Founder

  • shiyas@nyayneetifoundation.org

K.R Shiyas

  • shiyas@nyayneetifoundation.org

Mr. KR Shiyas is a Lawyer, practising in the Hon’ble Supreme Court and Delhi High Court. Mr Shiyas graduated Law from the Government Law College Thrissur, Kerala and started his career at the leading legal journal, Live Law as a Research Associate and worked for 2 years. In 2021 Mr Shiyas moved to Delhi and started litigation at the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court. Mr Shiyas was the Project coordinator (New Delhi) of the Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiative Project with SLIC (Socio-Legal Information Centre) Delhi and was in charge of the UP state unit under the project. He attended the Summer School of Anti-Monopoly Regulated Industries (AMRI) of Law and Political Economy, Yale University in 2021, in which the course emphasized on Anti-Monopoly Regulatory regimes in the Finance & Banking, Pharmaceuticals Industries etc. Mr Shiyas was one of the candidates selected for the Internet Rules: Unboxing Digital Laws in South Asia workshop, 2020 from India, conducted by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), California, USA.

Mr Shiyas has been involved in landmark cases in the Hon’ble Supreme Court like Degree Prasad Chauhan v Union of India & Ors (Pegasus Surveillance Case), Pattalimakkal Katchi v Mayilerumperumal & Ors (TN Vanniyar Reservation Case), Mahanadhi Coal Fields Ltd v Mathias Oram & Ors (Land Acquisition which Hon’ble SC directed around 600 Cr compensation to the Tribal Community in Odisha). Rajesh v Kalu & Ors (Social Boycott of Dalit Communities in Haryana), Veenayak Shah v Union of India etc. His focus area of practice is the Right to Affordable Health Care & Pharma, the Right to Housing, Copyright (Access to Knowledge), Labour Law and Constitutional Law. Mr Shiyas is a regular contributor of legal articles on Health & Pharma, Copyright and Access to Knowledge, Privacy, and Refugee issues in English and Malayalam and an Editorial Member of the All-India Lawyers Association for Justice (AILAJ) magazine. Mr Shiyas is also a member of the Delhi Housing Rights Task Force (DHRTF) to help Slum Dwellers and other destitute against arbitrary eviction and demolition by the Land-Owning Agencies in NCR.