Nyaya Sahayak — Legal Aid for Every Indian

300 million Indians qualify for legal aid.
Almost none receive it.

Nyaya Sahayak is a free, offline-first mobile application built for the India that lives beyond wifi — for the farmer who doesn't know his property rights, the woman afraid to file an FIR, the migrant worker cheated of his wages. The law belongs to everyone.

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§ I — Background

Our Mission

India's constitution guarantees every citizen fundamental rights. Yet for hundreds of millions living in rural areas, low-connectivity zones, or outside the urban professional class — those rights exist only on paper.

Legal illiteracy isn't a personal failure. It's a systemic one. Lawyers are expensive. Procedures are opaque. Government offices are distant. Language is a barrier. And the internet has done little to bridge that gap for 400 million Indians who remain offline.

"The law must reach the last person — not just the last mile."

Nyaya Sahayak was designed around one constraint: it must work with no internet, on a basic Android phone, for someone who has never used a legal resource in their life. Everything else follows.

§ II — Core Modules

Four Pillars of Access

Know Your Rights

Constitutional

A searchable repository of 53+ fundamental rights and legal protections explained in plain language. Covers Articles 14–32 of the Indian Constitution, labour protections, women's rights, and emergency legal provisions. Verified content, offline always.

Arts. 14–32Labour Law Women's RightsProperty RightsFTS Search

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Apply For

Procedural

Step-by-step guidance for 25+ government documents and welfare schemes. No jargon, no guesswork — numbered steps for Aadhaar, Voter ID, Ration Card, RTI filing, and more. Designed so a first-time user can follow it alone.

RTI FilingAadhaar Voter IDRation Card25+ Schemes

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Where To Go

Navigation

Fully offline maps using pre-bundled OpenStreetMap tiles. Government offices, legal aid centres, and district courts pre-loaded with GPS navigation. No mobile data required — because the people who need legal help most often have none.

Offline OSMGPS Nav Legal Aid CentresState-specific

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Emergency SOS

Safety

One-touch emergency alerts with auto location-sharing to privately-stored contacts. Built first for women facing domestic violence, but designed for anyone in immediate danger. Contacts are never synced to any server — they stay on your device.

One-Touch SOSPrivate Contacts Auto-LocationNo Server Sync

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§ III — Principles

Built Different,
by Design

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100% Offline

No servers, no API calls. SQLite with full-text search stores everything locally. Works in villages, forests, anywhere signal disappears.

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Private by Design

Zero data collection. No tracking or analytics. Emergency contacts are encrypted and never leave the device.

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17 Languages

Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Punjabi, Kannada, Malayalam, Assamese, Kashmiri, Kokborok, Nepali, Sanskrit, English.

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Runs on Basic Phones

Under 50 MB. Launches in 3 seconds. Android 8.0+ and iOS 14.0+ — including 4-year-old budget handsets.

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Bluetooth Content Sync

Volunteers push verified content updates device-to-device via Bluetooth P2P at legal aid clinics. No internet needed.

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Cryptographically Verified

Every content item carries an RSA-signed SHA-256 signature, checked before display. No misinformation can be injected.

§ IV — The Builders

Two developers.
One mission.

Ojas S.K Mohbansi

Co-Founder & Developer

Driving the technical architecture and vision of Nyaya Sahayak. Passionate about using software to address systemic inequality in legal information access across India.

Pranav Prasoon

Co-Founder & Developer

Shaping the product experience and legal content strategy. Focused on making constitutional rights genuinely understandable to people who have never encountered a legal document.

§ V — Technology

Under the Hood

Component	Technology	Purpose
Framework	React Native 0.72	Cross-platform mobile UI
Build Tool	Expo SDK 49	Development & deployment
Language	TypeScript 5.0	Type-safe development
State	Zustand 4.4	Lightweight state management
Database	SQLite 3.42+ with FTS4	Offline full-text search
Maps	OpenStreetMap (offline tiles)	Zero-data navigation
Navigation	React Navigation 6	Screen routing
P2P Sync	Bluetooth RFCOMM	Offline content distribution
Security	RSA + SHA-256	Content integrity verification
Platforms	Android 8.0+ · iOS 14.0+	Broad device compatibility

§ VI — Contact

Want to contribute,
collaborate, or partner?

Whether you're an NGO worker, legal aid volunteer, developer, or anyone who believes in equal access to justice — we'd love to hear from you.

ojasmohbansi+nyayasahayak@gmail.com

Nyaya Sahayak is a volunteer-built project. All correspondence is personally read and replied to.