Garima Sidar
Garima Sidar works as a Research Assistant – Legal at the Centre for Child and Law, NLSIU. She is engaged in the Right to Food programme, her work would focus on strengthening the implementation of legal frameworks to ensure food security for children and advancing advocacy for progressive legislative reforms.
Garima holds an LL.M. in Human Rights and Criminal Law from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal.
Prior to joining CCL, she served as a Research Consultant with the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project (CPA Project), where she contributed to a year-long study on wildlife policing and the criminalisation of forest-dwelling communities.
Subsequently, she worked as a Law Researcher at the Centre for Research and Planning, Supreme Court of India, under the tenure of Hon’ble Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, focussing on the SC JUDICARE (Judicial Disposal through Case Management and Resource Efficiency project).
Important Publications:
- Garima Sidar, Co-authored an article titled “How wildlife conservation laws and policies have reduced the Forest Rights Act to a paper tiger” dated 02.2022.
- Garima Sidar, interviewed for an article published on The Quint titled “The Wildlife Protection Act & How It Is Used To Criminalise Forest Dwellers” dated 03.02.2023.
- Garima Sidar, Co-authored a year-long research project “Wildlife policing: The Reign of Criminalisation in the Forest of Madhya Pradesh”.
- Garima Sidar, Co-authored a Research Paper titled ‘Battered woman syndrome in criminal justice system of India: An analysis’ (2022) II (2) 24
You can reach her at ccl@nls.ac.in