She is originally from Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India,[1] Yadav studied at Welham Girls' School, Dehradun.
[4][5] She was appointed the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, later resigning the position after a decision by the Supreme Court of India, thus becoming the second IAS officer in succession after Akhand Pratap Singh to have done so.
[8][9][10] In December 2010 Yadav was sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment after being convicted of misusing her official position as IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh to allot land fraudulently in Noida to Flex Industries, owned by industrialist Ashok Chaturvedi.
[11][12][13] On 20 November 2012 a special CBI court sentenced Neera Yadav to 3 years' imprisonment for the Noida plot scam that happened between 1993 and 1995.
[16] On 2 August 2017 the Supreme Court of India sentenced Neera Yadav to two years' imprisonment in the Noida land allotment scam.