Sep 8, 2024 | Death Penalty, Gender Issues, Undemocratic Laws
PUDR opposes the passage of The Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024, which amends the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, in their application to West...
Dec 7, 2023 | Death Penalty, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) raises concern over the increased number of offences punishable by death in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS, 2023). Tabled in the Parliament in August, the BNS is slated to replace the existing Indian Penal Code (IPC, 1860)...
Nov 10, 2022 | Death Penalty
On November 3, 2022, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court reconfirmed its earlier decision of upholding Mohammad Arif’s death penalty. Accused in the Red Fort attack case of December 2000, Arif has, till now, spent nearly 22 years behind bars. The first seven...
Mar 20, 2020 | Death Penalty
PUDR expresses anguish at the impending hangings of Pawan, Mukesh, Akshay and Vinay who were convicted for the brutal gang rape and murder committed on 16 December 2012 in Delhi. Their crime was heinous, and PUDR condemns it in no uncertain terms. However, it needs to...
Mar 20, 2020 | Death Penalty
१६ दिसम्बर २०१२ को दिल्ली में हुए गैंग रेप और हत्या कांड के चार दोषियों को २० मार्च २०२० की सुबह ५-३० बजे होने वाली फाँसी की सज़ा पर पीयूडीआर चिंता व्यक्त करता है । ये विदित है की उनके द्वारा किया गया अपराध जघन्य था और उसकी जितनी निंदा की जाए उतनी कम है । लेकिन, इस...
Jan 22, 2020 | Death Penalty
People’s Union for Democratic Rights strongly opposes the impending death penalty for gang rape and murder that the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case, Akshay, Mukesh, Pawan and Vinay are awaiting. It is widely known and well established that death penalty is not a...
