Jul 13, 2025 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The Maharashtra Assembly has passed the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill (Mh SPSB) 2024, exactly a year after its initial tabling. Projected as a measure to curb the spread of Naxalism in urban areas, the Bill grants sweeping powers to the government to ban...
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...
Feb 2, 2025 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On 31 December 2024, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) released a “Year-End Press Release” in which it noted a “record 100% conviction rate for 2024” (https://nia.gov.in/writereaddata/Portal/PressReleaseNew/1874_1_PR31122024.pdf). The press release notes the...
Jan 13, 2025 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) stands in solidarity with People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and other human rights organizations and joins them in expressing disapproval of the remarks made by a Special NIA Sessions Court, Lucknow. The court made a...
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...
