Vanita Devi, 36 (name changed) is accused of killing her two children aged three and six in 2017. Married off at the age of 16, she spent most of her life amid domestic violence. Abandoned by family for the crime she says she never committed, she spent over five years in jail with no hope.

She finally got bail in 2022, thanks to a team from the Square Circle Clinic, a Fair Trial Programme (FTP) of the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Since then, Ms. Devi, who is now diagnosed with mental illness, spends most of her time helping patients at a clinic, which agreed to give her shelter at a time her own kin left her to deal with the world.

Ms. Devi is one of the over 5,000 cases taken up by the Square Circle Clinic. NALSAR initiated the FTP in 2019 and has worked with undertrials at the

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