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.
“Close to the one-year anniversary of violence in Nuh district, Haryana, PUDR released its report on ongoing state repression in the aftermath of July 31, 2023. Justice Madan Lokur (retd., Supreme Court) and Professor Manoranjan Mohanty (retd., Delhi University) launched “In the wake of Nuh: A report on state repression” on July 29, 2024 at Press Club of India.
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A Rape in Custody (आगामी अतीत): Sexual History and Criminal Justice, Narela Police Station
This is a small report highlighting the adverse circumstances that a rape survivor faces in the aftermath of her rape in police custody. The report is about the rape of a Dalit woman in a Narela Police Station in Delhi. In an uncommon instance in this case, the...
A Rape in Custody: Hauz Khas Police Station
A woman brought to the police station goes missing, and when found accuses a policeman of rape. All circumstantial evidence points to the guilt of the policeman and he is taken into judicial custody. Despite this, the investigating police officers take much interest...
Netarhat: In the Line of Fire
In the Palamu and Gumla districts of Jharkhand (erstwhile Bihar), tens of thousands of people successfully prevented the army from conducting field firing and artillery practice on their land in 1994. Later on, the plan for making the entire area into a firing range...
First Notch in their Gun: Custodial Death, Seelampur P.S.
At around 4.00 in the afternoon of August 27, Masoom Ali, a 60-year-old ex-Army person, goes to a tea stall in his locality, Chauhan Bangar. He has heard that his son, Nusrat, is in a brawl with Mohd. Farman, son of Chand, the tea stall owner. Not only does he...
A Very Easy Death: IGI Airport Police Station
In the limited world of a resettlement colony, Kuldeep's desire to make it big is a run-of-the-mill story. A familiar story of an ordinary youth caught in a social environment from which he desires to break free. Kuldeep procures a passport for which he pays a...
Latest Press Statements
Continuing cases of SIMI acquittals expose the fraudulent nature of UAPA
On 30th September 2015, a local court in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, acquitted 14 persons who had been arrested on 14th June 2011 on charges of being members of SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) and for holding a banned meeting in a residential house in Khandwa...
बस्तर में वकीलों, पत्रकारों पर लगातार हमले का विरोध करो
बस्तर बार एसोसिएशन द्वारा पुलिस के साथ सांठगांठ से जिस तरीके से जगदलपुर लीगल ऐड ग्रुप (जगलग) को स्थानीय आदिवासियों की कानूनी मदद करने से रोका जा रहा है, उस पर पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डैमोक्रेटिक राइट्स गहरी चिंता व्यक्त करता है. तकनीकी अड़चन को आधार बनाकर 3 अक्टूबर को बार...
Condemn continuing attacks on lawyers and journalists in Bastar, Chhattisgarh
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is alarmed at the manner in which the Bastar Bar Association in tandem with the police is creating legal hurdles for the Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group from providing representation to local Adivasis who are harassed as Naxal offenders....
पीयूडीआर मानेसर औद्योगिक क्षेत्र में पुलिस द्वारा मज़दूरों पर झूठे मुकदमे करने और लगातार उनको विरोध प्रदर्शन से रोकने के प्रयास की निंदा करता है
पीयूडीआर मानेसर औद्योगिक क्षेत्र में पुलिस द्वारा मज़दूरों पर झूठे मुकदमे करने और लगातार उनको विरोध प्रदर्शन करने से रोकने के प्रयास की निंदा करता है| 26 सितम्बर 2015 को मारुति सुज़ुकी इंडिया लिमिटेड की मानेसर फैक्ट्री के गेट पर विरोध कर रहे अस्थायी मज़दूरों पर पुलिस ने...
CDRO Statement Against Torture and Threat to Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Presidency Correctional Home
The Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations, CDRO, strongly condemns the punitive measures adopted by the jail administration of Kolkata’s Presidency Correctional Home against 30 political prisoners who have been on hunger strike since 28th August 2015. The...