Subverting Article 243-ZC: Creation of legal fiction to apply Part IX-A of the Constitution to Scheduled Areas

Aditya is a Senior Resident Fellow with the Vidhi Maharashtra team. His work focuses on providing research and drafting assistance to various departments of the Government of Maharashtra. Prior to joining Vidhi, he worked for over five years as a legal researcher and capacity-building trainer at the Centre for Social Justice. He has handled a wide range of rights-based cases, at all judicial levels, including crucial landmark judgments. He also has extensive experience researching legal issues emerging from grassroots contexts in Gujarat and Chhattisgarh, particularly in Schedule V regions. His work focused on linking grassroots issues to policy interventions, ensuring policies are informed by ground realities. Additionally, he has written extensively on human-rights issues at the intersection of law, policy, and governance. He earned his law degree from ILS Law College in 2019 and a Master’s in Arts (Public Policy) from the Jindal School of Government and Policy in 2023.