For disabled citizens to have the police they deserve

Rahul Bajaj is Senior Associate Fellow [Disability Rights] at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. In this role, Rahul works with Vidhi's Disability Inclusion and Access team to provide high quality thought leadership on legal policy issues concerning persons with disabilities, assists the team with various origination and engaged projects, spearheads the team's strategic litigation efforts and assists in building mutually beneficial partnerships. Rahul is also a practicing lawyer in the courts of Delhi and the Co-Founder of an NGO called Mission Accessibility which also works on advancing the rights of the disabled. Rahul's prior experiences including working in the Disputes Practice in Trilegal, Delhi, pursuing two masters in law degrees from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and clerking for the current Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud.

Damini Ghosh leads the Disability Inclusion and Access practice at Vidhi where she focuses on improving the implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 using law as a catalyst and by generating legal awareness. Damini joined Vidhi in 2017 where, initially, she handled commissioned projects from several central ministries and regulatory bodies, involving legal research and legislative drafting in various areas of law, before shifting her focus to disability law and policy in 2021. Prior to joining Vidhi, Damini has worked at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, Tuli & Co and at the Central Information Commission set up under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Damini graduated from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata in 2008 with a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) and obtained her LL.M. degree in regulatory laws and policy from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2013.