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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.
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.