People's Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi

19th Feb 07

To,

The National Commission for Women

Deen Dayal Upadhaya Marg

Delhi

Subject: Custodial death and rape

Madam,

We want to refer to you a gruesome case of custody death and rape in Sarguja district of Chhattisgarh that has come to our notice recently.

People's Union for Democratic Rights

To

The Hon’ble Chief Justice

Delhi High Court

New Delhi

16 July 2015

While PUDR understands that Indian society is deeply patriachal, it also believes that the Indian state is primarily responsible for the sorry state of women's rights in this country, and that its actions enforces and sustains the inequality of women in the family, community and society. The fact is that rape is a crime whose basis lies in the operation of power: patriarchal, class, caste, ethnic and religion, and of the state. Thus raping women is used as an instrument to attack communities and to bring them to their knees by the state forces wherever armed forces are deployed.

 

People’s Union for Democartic Rights

05 January 2013

To,

The

Secretary

Justice Verma Commission