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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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...
Special Staff on Duty: Death in the Custody of North East District Police
This is a report on custodial death in the North-East police district of Delhi in the year 1995. A businessman, Dilip Chakravarty was picked up from his home by policemen in civil clothes who were acting purportedly on the basis of some information regarding...
In Memory of Mr. Gobinda Mukhoty
Gobinda Mukhoty completed graduation from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1948. In 1957 he went to the UK to study law. After completing his bar-at-law in 1964 he returned to India and started teaching at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. He started practice as a lawyer...
Latest Press Statements
Condemn casteist actions of Hyderabad University authorities
PUDR strongly condemns the authorities of the Central University of Hyderabad for their caste based victimisation of Dalit students, which, on 17th January, 2016, resulted in Rohith Vemula , a Dalit Research Scholar in Science Technology and Society Studies in the...
Supreme Court’s ruling on Haryana Panchayati Raj case: a case of “contempt of people”
PUDR expresses deep concern over the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Act, 2015. On Human Rights Day, 10th December 2015, the apex court upheld five disqualifications laid down in the Act to particularly exclude those who are...
दिल्ली पुलिस होश में आओ!
पीयूडीआर दिल्ली पुलिस द्वारा 'ओक्युपाई युजीसी' के प्रदर्शनकारियों पर लगातार किये जा रहे हमलों की पुरज़ोर निंदा करता है | 9 दिसंबर 2015 को दिल्ली पुलिस ने एक बार फिर 'ओक्युपाई युजीसी' प्रदर्शन में भाग ले रहे लोगों पर लाठी-चार्ज किया, आंसू गैस व पानी के गोले बरसाए और कई...
BD Sharma: Advocate of Adivasi Rights
PUDR mourns the death of Dr Brahma Dev Sharma, one among the rare breed of civil servants who, in service as well as on retirement, continued to stand by the marginalised and the oppressed. His lifelong service of championing the rights of the Adivasis has stood the...
Muffling of the media and the slide down to khakistocracy: PUDR strongly condemns Assam Rifles notification in Nagaland
On 16th November this year, the date which is celebrated as the National Press Day, three news dailies in Nagaland ran blank columns in place of editorials. The news dailies picked up the occasion to protest a notification from the Assam Rifles dated 25th October...