Garima Pal is an Assistant Professor at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai. She is Managing Editor of the journal Victimology and Victim Justice (Sage), and an Executive Director of the Care Village Foundation in Delhi. She has published numerous papers and book chapters in leading journals, and co-authored Hate Crime in India: Understanding Nuanced Discrimination Against North-Eastern Population (Springer: 2023). Chirag Balyan is an Assistant Professor of Law at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai. He was instrumental in setting up Centre for Research in Criminal Justice at MNLU Mumbai. He has published in leading journals and co-edited a book titled Revisiting Reforms in the Criminal Justice System in India (Thomson Reuters: 2020).