Mar 13, 2025 | Communalism, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR expresses strong reservations and condemns the coordinated raids in last week of February on bookstores by the Jammu and Kashmir police in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir. As per reports in the press about 668 books have been seized. Majority of books seized...
Feb 28, 2025 | Communalism, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR acknowledges imprisonment for life handed down to Sajjan Kumar by the Delhi Special Court on 25th of February 2025 for the murder of father-son duo Jaswant Singh and Tarundeep Singh at PS Saraswati Vihar on 01st of November 1984. The case is based on the...
Nov 1, 2024 | Communalism, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
November 1, 2024, marks the 40th year of pan-India massacres in which thousands of Sikhs were brutally maimed and killed. Although the official figure on the number of deaths in Delhi alone was 2733, other estimates placed the total number between 3,000 in Delhi to...
Jul 30, 2024 | Communalism, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On July 22, 2024, the fourth annual Brajmandal Abhishek Yatra passed peacefully through the Nuh district in Haryana. Last year, the same yatra was characterised by violence, followed by state repression that casts a shadow till today. In the wake of Nuh: A report on...
Apr 17, 2023 | Communalism, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Jahangirpuri in northwest Delhi came into the headlines when an outbreak of communal violence took place in the course of a confrontation between some Hindus and Muslims during a Hanuman Jayanti procession on 16 April 2022. Two FIRs (nos. 440 and 441 of 2022,...
Apr 3, 2023 | Communalism, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
When will the law take action against vigilantes operating with impunity People’s Union for Democratic Rights condemns the killing of Idris Pasha on Friday, 31st March 2023. News reports and social media posts by credible sources testify to the horrifying incident in...
