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.