 Yadav was born on 26 November 1997 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.Her family lived in a single-room dormitory in the premises of the Tatya Tope Nagar Sports Complex where her father Mehtab Singh Yadav worked as an electrician.Yadav would accompany her father to the shooting range at the complex and, in 2012, decided to make a career in the sport.