Aug 12, 2011 | Death Penalty
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is deeply concerned at the Supreme Court upholding the death penalty for Mohammad Arif@ Ashfaq in the Red Fort Attack case as well as the Union Home Ministry advisory to the President in the Parliament Attack case, to reject...
Jun 3, 2011 | Death Penalty
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights urges the Union Government to commute the death sentence awarded to Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar as well as Mahendra Nath Das. While individual circumstances of the case would bring out mitigating factors there is an issue of...
Dec 24, 2006 | Death Penalty
The Death Penalty is no Answer to Custodial Violance! In a ‘first of its kind’ decision a Delhi court has awarded the death sentence to a police officer – ACP Rishi Prasad Tyagi, for the custodial killings of Mahender Kumar and Ram Kumar in 1987 in Police Station...
Dec 22, 2006 | Death Penalty
ON FRIDAY, 22 DECEMBER 2000, at about 9 p.m., a firing incident took place inside the Red Fort at Delhi which housed, since 1857 and until recently, an Army garrison. Three Army personnel of the 7th Battalion of the Rajputana Rifles, died in the attack. While those...
Dec 20, 2006 | Death Penalty
PUDR has all along been concerned with high profile cases be it the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case or the Parliament attack case as they raise serious issues pertaining to criminal jurisprudence. The judgement on the Red Fort attack delivered by a Delhi session’s...
Nov 17, 2006 | Death Penalty
The conviction of Santosh Singh by Delhi High Court for the rape and murder of Priyadarshni Mattoo is very welcome. Inspite of wait of ten long years justice has finaly been done with the overturning of Session’s Court judgment acquitting Santosh Singh. However...
