Oct 10, 2017 | Custodial Death
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) expresses grave concern at the increasing incidents of violent attacks and gang wars in jail which severely threaten the life and security of the inmates. The Tihar jail authorities have faltered in fulfilling their...
Feb 19, 2017 | Custodial Death, Custodial Rape
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...
Jun 8, 2015 | Custodial Death
The Minister of Home Affairs Delhi Government 8th June 2015 Subject: Custodial Death of 24 year old Jagannath under PS. Okhla Phase I on 27th May 2015 Dear Sir, We wish to draw your attention to a case which was brought before us by the deceased’s family. The...
Mar 22, 2015 | Communalism, Custodial Death, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On 22 May 1987, PAC personnel of UP reached Hashimpura, Meerut, took away about 50 Muslim men from a crowd outside a mosque, shot dead at least 42 of the men, and threw their bodies into a canal. On 21 March 2015, a Delhi Sessions Court accepted that the PAC personnel...
Dec 25, 2013 | Armed Conflict, Custodial Death
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights condemns the killing of Sai Reddy, a correspondent of Deshbandhu, a Hindi newspaper, based in Bijapur in south Bastar, Chhattisgarh on December 6, 2013. In a statement issued on December 10, 2013, the South Regional Committee of...
Jun 6, 2013 | Custodial Death, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR strongly condemns the death of Khalid Mujahid, an undertrial arrested in 2007 in connection with bomb blasts in UP earlier that year. Mujahid died on 19 May, 2013 when he was being escorted by a team of the Uttar Pradesh state police from a court in Faizabad to...
