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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Release of Fact Finding Report by CDRO and WSS entitled, “State of Siege: Report on Encounters and Cases of Sexual Violence in Bijapur and Sukma Districts of Chhattisgarh”
Between the 16th to 22nd January, 2016, members of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization (CDRO) and Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) conducted a fact finding in villages of Bijapur and Sukma districts of Chhattisgarh. The team...
Kashmir: ‘More things change, more they remain the same’ – CDRO
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation is alarmed at how a demand for justice results again in killing of civilians by a trigger happy Government force in Kashmir. The alleged molestation of a 16 year old girl on April 12thby a personnel of 21 RR posted in...
Condemn police brutality on students and teachers in University of Hyderabad
PUDR strongly condemns the brutal police action unleashed on students and teachers at the University of Hyderabad campus on 22nd March 2016. This took place when students were protesting against the return of the Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Poddile to the campus after he...
The lynch mob of Latehar
In the early hours of 18th March 2016, Mohammad Majloom Ansari (35) and Inayahtullah Khan (12) were found hanging from a tree in the Balumath forest area in Latehar, Jharkhand. Residents of Balugoan and Nawada villages, Ansari and young Khan were on their way to the...
Manual Scavenging must End
Manual scavenging is a caste based occupation wherein a certain sub-caste of Dalits are condemned to manually clean, carry, dispose or handle in any manner human excreta from dry latrines and sewers. Though it has been constitutionally banned for more than twenty...
Latest Publications
Behind High Walls: Custodial Death in Tihar Jail
On July 15, 1996, a newspaper reported the death of an undertrial, Yasin Ahmed, under "mysterious circumstance". He had been in jail for slightly under three months. PUDR team conducted a fact-finding investigation and met jail officials, Yasin's family members and...
Parag Das and Z.V. Yaopei: Martyrs of the Democratic Rights Movement
Civil rights activist and editor of Asomiya Protidin Parag Das was assassinated on 17 May 1996 in Guwahati in broad daylight, while picking up his son from school. He played an active role in the formation of the Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti in 1991. At the time of...
Maze of Inquiries: Custodial Rape at Deshbandhu Gupta Road P.S.
On the night of 20 January 1996, a boy along with his sister and niece were picked up by the police personnel of Deshbandhu Gupta Road P.S. Both the women were raped inside the Police Station. Women were allowed to go the next day and the boy was kept for one more...
A Lover’s Suicide: Custodial Death in ISBT Police Chowki
This report published in 1996 is about the custodial death at the ISBT Police Station of 20-year-old Ravinder. Ravinder had arrived in Delhi on 24 February, 1996 looking for work. His parents, residents of Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh were informed at 7 pm of his death....
Custodial Death and a Weak Alibi: Mehrauli Police Station
The year had just progressed a little with a multitude of hopes and prospects; but certainly not for 19-year-old Indal, a resident of Jeevan Janata Camp, Tigri Khanpur. His death on 3rd January 1996 in the custody of Mehrauli Police Station, marked the first death...
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