Disability & Criminal Justice
Disability Justice in Custody
Why India's national disability registry has never talked to its criminal justice system — and what it costs. A firsthand case study with constitutional and CRPD compliance analysis.
New Delhi, India · IIM Ahmedabad
Vikas
Gupta
Disability Rights Defender · AI Governance Commentator · Constitutional Litigant
Public-interest litigant at the intersection of law, technology, and state power. Self-represented petitioner in W.P.(C) 11495/2025 before the Delhi High Court — challenging custodial disability rights violations by Delhi Police and Tihar Jail.
About
Vikas Gupta speaks for academic, policy, and corporate audiences on disability rights, AI governance, institutional accountability, and democratic erosion — bringing the practitioner authority of someone who has litigated what he analyses.
Policy Focus
- Disability rights & custody
- AI governance & accountability
- Institutional design failures
- Democratic erosion in India
- Digital exclusion & public rights
- CRPD & RPwD Act compliance
Speaking Topics
Technology & Governance
AI, Standardisation & Institutional Risk
AI's democratising promise and its standardising reality are the same phenomenon seen from different positions in the hierarchy — with direct implications for governance, HR, and inclusion policy.
Rights Litigation
From Individual Cases to Constitutional Change
How a single custodial violation becomes a structural constitutional accountability mechanism. A live case study in rights litigation strategy from inside the Delhi High Court.
Democracy & Institutions
Democratic Erosion & Institutional Accountability
How opposition silence, market logic, and governance siloes hollow out rights frameworks even where formal legal protections remain intact.
Available Formats
- Keynote 45–60 min
- Plenary address
- Guest lecture
- Panel discussion
- Seminar / workshop
- In person or remote
Recent Engagements
RightsCon 2026 — Lusaka, Zambia
Silenced Twice: Press Freedom and Disability Voices Under Threat
Academic & Executive Programmes
Guest lectures on disability rights, AI governance, and institutional accountability
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When Algorithms Decide Who Belongs: Can AI Undermine Disability Rights?
OpenGlobalRights
When Detention Becomes Punishment Before a Verdict
OpenGlobalRights
For India's Disabled Litigants, Justice is an Insurmountable Challenge
The Leaflet
India's Disability Rights Crisis: 27 Million Left Behind
Disabled World
How AI Efficiency is Turning Diversity into a Liability
Disabled World
The AI Divide: How Technology is Leaving India's Public Schools Behind
Counterview
India Has Spent Billions on Skilling — So Why Are the Skilled Still Unemployed?
Counterview
India's Young Population Will Create Wealth Only If the Country Gives It Productive Work
Countercurrents
Two Identities, One Democracy: The Rise of the Voter Over the Citizen
Countercurrents
The Mirror Doesn't Lie: How BJP Became the Congress It Swore to Bury
Countercurrents
A Decade of Silence: How the Opposition Lost India's Human Rights Fight
Counterview
Current Litigation
Delhi High Court
W.P.(C) 11495/2025
Self-represented constitutional petition arguing that the state's failure to integrate its national disability registry with criminal justice intake constitutes discrimination by omission under the RPwD Act 2016, non-compliance with CRPD Article 14, and a violation of Article 21's dignity guarantee.
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