
Senior Resident Fellow
Ayushi Sharma
Ayushi is a Senior Resident Fellow with the Crime & Punishment Team at Vidhi. Her work focuses on mapping of India's criminal law landscape and developing a framework for principle based criminal law making. She also works on a project with UNICEF on children's health and protection issues in Assam. She graduated from National University of Law, Punjab (RGNUL) and obtained her Masters from the Indian Law Institute, Delhi. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at National Law Institute University, Bhopal, where her research is focused on violence against sexual minorities.
REPORT ⁞ 23 April 2025
The State of the System
In this report, we map all actions and omissions criminalised under central laws. The report also highlights inconsisten...
Aashna, Ishaan, Sriyanshi, Ayushi, Naveed
PRIMER ⁞ 21 June 2024
How India Punishes
Third in the series on Reimagining Crime & Punishment in India, This primer intends to provide an overview of punishment...
Aayush, Ayushi, Naveed
PRIMER ⁞ 22 November 2023
Towards Better Criminal Law Making
Second in the series on Reimagining Crime & Punishment in India, this primer attempts to understand the different mechan...
Neha, Naveed, Ayushi
COMMENTS ⁞ 01 November 2023
Comments on the New Criminal Law Bills
In this note, we examine the aims and objectives of the three Bills, the key provisions that have been introduced and ma...
Neha, Naveed, Ayushi, Aayush, Sriyanshi
LEST WE FORGET ⁞ 04 November 2022
Penalising Before Providing
A study of enforcement of COVID-19 related norms in Delhi
Naveed, Ayushi, Alena, Neha
After amnesty for undertrials, use open prisons to...
Ayushi Sharma, Sriyanshi Bhatt
How India Punishes: Rethinking the use of criminal...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
Similar crimes, different punishments? The problem...
Aayush Mallik, Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
7-yr jail for marriage fraud, 1 yr for forced labo...
Naveed Mehmood Ahmad, Ayushi Sharma, Aayush Mallik
Uttarakhand UCC intrudes unnecessarily into privat...
Ayushi Sharma, Kartavi Satyarthi
Bilkis Bano case: Why SC revoked remission orders ...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
House panel’s coding doesn’t fix the problem
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
Prosecuting Arundhati Roy After 13 Years Raises Qu...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
The Victorian imprint continues in Bharatiya Nyaya...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
A lost opportunity to find and erase the ‘colonial...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
The New criminal law bills have failed to reimagin...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
Why SC Can Still Send Bilkis Bano’s Rapists Back t...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
POCSO Act must stop turning consensual relationshi...
Neha Singhal, Ayushi Sharma
Why Indian courts can send people to jail for over...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
Crime & Punishment: Inadequacy of criminal law to ...
Naveed Mehmood Ahmad, Ayushi Sharma
Two-finger test ban: The SC’s judgement is lacking...
Ayushi Sharma, Alena Kahle
How Bilkis Case Convicts Abused Parole, Furlough
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
Law’s clear: SC can revoke remission orders – Bilk...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
Allahabad HC’s sweeping order in dowry case shows ...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
Recent Allahabad High Court Judgement Represents E...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
Blasphemy & Sedition Laws: Why These Are Affecting...
Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
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