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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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
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...
Condemn Delhi Police Brutality on Protesting Students
PUDR strongly condemns the repression unleashed by the Delhi police on students protesting against the University Grants Commission's move to scrap non NET fellowship for research scholars. The protesting students were lathicharged by the Delhi police first on October...
Writers’ Protest: A Call Against Intolerance and More
The threat of a two pronged attack on life and liberty of the citizens, as well as visiting foreigners, posed by a party in power never appeared as imminent as it does today. There is an exponential rise in the assault on our democratic rights launched by the Hindtuva...
Lynch and Burn: Hindutva’s slaughter methods
On 18th October 2015, Zahid Ahmed Bhat succumbed to his burn injuries in New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. Bhat, a resident of Batengoo, Anantnag district, was a nineteen year old cleaner of a truck that was set on fire on the night of 9th--10th October 2015 by a Hindu...