The civil rights movement in India has emerged as an autonomous voice in defense of civil liberties and democratic rights of our people. The Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, is one such organisation. It came into existence in 1977 as the Delhi unit of a larger national forum, PUCLDR, and became PUDR on 1 February, 1981.
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Crime Unlimited: Torture, Extortion and Murder in the Custody of Delhi Police, Gandhi Nagar Police Station
The report relates to the death of a 23-year-old boy, Dinesh, a resident of Raghubarpura, near Gandhi Nagar in East Delhi. Dinesh was being questioned by the Gandhi Nagar police over the disappearance of a minor girl in his neighbourhood. The visits to the Police...
A Sensational Case of Extortion: Death in Tihar Jail
The report is based on PUDR’s investigation into the death of twenty-year-old Raziuddin in Tihar Jail. Raziuddin, a B.Sc. from Jamia Milia Islamia and also a Diploma in Computer Science and Architecture was falsely implicated by the Crime Branch of Delhi under the...
Triggering Death: Custodial Death, Delhi Police Style
Anil, a resident of Sonia Vihar who was disabled and the sole breadwinner of a large family, was shot dead by a constable on the day of Holi, 2nd March 1999. Although the constable was suspended and sent to the district police line, since the incident did not occur...
Judicial Terror: Death Penalty, TADA and the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case
This report is a detailed analysis of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and the faulty judicial process and judgement by the court constituted under the draconian Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA). It shows how through the provisions of a...
An Illusion of Justice: Supreme Court Judgment on Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head Pretending he just doesn't see - Bob Dylan To download the report, click below: An Illusion of Justice: Supreme Court Judgment on Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
Latest Press Statements
The Pelletised Face of Kashmir
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is horrified that the Rajya Sabha which debated the situation in Jammu and Kashmir on August 10, could not muster resolve to call for an immediate halt to use of pellet guns, which is not used anywhere in either India or the world...
पवित्र गाय, अपवित्र शव और दलित
पीयूडीआर गुजरात में गिर सोमनाथ जिले के उना तालुका अंतर्गत मोटा समाधियाला गाँव में गौ-रक्षकों द्वारा चमार जाति के 7 लोगों के साथ मार-पीट, कपड़े उतारने और प्रदर्शन करने की घटना की कड़ी निंदा करता है। इसने हिन्दुत्व के गाय की राजनीति की ब्राह्मणवादी चरित्र तथा राज्य के...
Holy Cow, Unholy Carcass and Dalits
PUDR condemns the incident of flogging, stripping and parading of seven men belonging to the chamar caste by vigilante gaurakshaks on 11 July 2016 in Mota Samadhiyala village, Una taluka, Gir Somnath District Gujarat, which has brought the Brahmanical character of...
The state’s war on democracy in Kashmir
After bullets, pellets, deaths; after curfew, clampdowns on mobile internet and on cable television, the Indian state has further exacerbated the war on people in Kashmir. On the night of 15 July 2016, the police raided, seized and shut down the printing presses of...
Another bloody harvest: We demand accountability from the state – stop the horrific bloodletting in Kashmir
PUDR unequivocally condemns the violence and repression unleashed by the security establishment on Kashmiri civilian population since the killing of Burhan Wani on Friday evening. CID ADG SM Sahai had declared in a Press briefing on Saturday that “Our non-lethal...