human rights defender
Aditya Anand
Actions and Campaigns
Aditya Anand
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Urgent support needed
Trail Monitoring
HRD's year of birth
1998
HRD's Gender
Man
Type of HRD
- Peasant leader
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Labour rights
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
Current Status
In prison (pre-trial)
HRD's bio and work
Aditya Anand, who has been painted as the “mastermind” behind the Noida violence, is an NIT-Jamshedpur graduate engineer who is also a committed social activist. Since his college days, he has volunteered and taught underprivileged children, helped run libraries for them, taken science classes etc. He took part in a successful and peaceful campaign to bring electricity connections to several working-class localities in Noida in 2025.
Detained since
Apr 17, 2026
Charge(s)
- Creating disturbances
- Damage to public property
Latitude: 28.411695744227075
Longitude: 77.55417681253584
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Asia: Southern Asia
Location of detention - City/Town
Luksar Jail, Kasna, Uttar Pradesh
Location of detention - Facility
Luksar Jail, Kasna, Uttar Pradesh
Recent case update / evolution
On 30 April 2026, he was produced before the Judicial Magistrate, where he was remanded to Judicial Custody. In police custody, he was subjected to torture, which is narrated to the Judicial Magistrate, and the Magistrate ordered an inquiry into the allegation. However, the police refuted the claim, stating that the injuries are self-inflicted.
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1998
- HRD's Gender
- Man
- Type of HRD
- Peasant leader
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Labour rights
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Aditya Anand, who has been painted as the “mastermind” behind the Noida violence, is an NIT-Jamshedpur graduate engineer who is also a committed social activist. Since his college days, he has volunteered and taught underprivileged children, helped run libraries for them, taken science classes etc. He took part in a successful and peaceful campaign to bring electricity connections to several working-class localities in Noida in 2025.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Asia: Southern Asia
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Luksar Jail, Kasna, Uttar Pradesh
- Location of detention - Facility
- Luksar Jail, Kasna, Uttar Pradesh
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 28.411695744227075
Longitude: 77.55417681253584
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Apr 17, 2026
- Current Status
- In prison (pre-trial)
- Charge(s)
- Creating disturbances
- Damage to public property
- Recent case update / evolution
On 30 April 2026, he was produced before the Judicial Magistrate, where he was remanded to Judicial Custody. In police custody, he was subjected to torture, which is narrated to the Judicial Magistrate, and the Magistrate ordered an inquiry into the allegation. However, the police refuted the claim, stating that the injuries are self-inflicted.
- Protection actions and campaigns
- Urgent support needed
Trail Monitoring
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- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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