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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1984 Carnage in Delhi: A Report on the Aftermath
On 17 November, PUDR and PUCL released their report "Who are the Guilty". The report covered the role of the state, congress (I) leaders and police personnel during the 1984 carnage in New Delhi. Among other things, the report carried in an annexure the names of the...
Bitter Harvest: The Roots of Massacres in Central Bihar
From the time of the killing of 14 Dalits at Tiskhora on 19 January 1991, more than 120 persons have been killed in a year in about 24 such incidents of agrarian violence against the poorest and most oppressed sections of rural Bihar. Popularly perceived to be...
Tragedy of “Errors”: A Death via Two Police Station
Bakhtawarpur village in northwest Delhi is situated around four kilometres off the G.T. Road near Alipur. The village houses 8,000 people in a main settlement and one dalit tola. The residents of the tola do not own any land apart from their houses and derive their...
Police Chases Police: Custodial Death Under Welcome Police Station
On 18th March 1992, the press reported the death of a youth, Darshan Singh, in police custody. This takes the Death toll to four in the very first three months of 1992. Police picked up Darshan Singh on 10th March along with another youth. While the latter was...
Choose the Death Card: New Seema Puri Police Station
The report relates to the death of a Bangladeshi youth, Ramzan, in New Seema Puri, a resettlement colony in North-east Delhi. Ramzan and three others were accosted by the local police while they were playing cards in a public lavatory at night. While the others...
Latest Press Statements
Stop Yakub Memon’s Hanging
On 15th July, the Maharashtra government announced that it has initiated the process for hanging Yakub Memon. On 30th July, 2015 ‘he is to be hung by the neck till dead’. The announcement seemed inevitable after the Supreme Court had rejected his review petition on...
The Murderers of Dhananjoy Hazir Ho! Abolish Death Penalty
The irreversibility of death penalty, and the likelihood of innocents being executed by the Judiciary, is one of the strongest arguments for abolishing capital punishment. Dhananjoy Chatterjee today joins the list of persons where clear evidence exists that they were...
Release of report entitled, Banned and Damned: SIMI’s Saga with UAPA Tribunals
Since 2001, the Students Islamic Movement of India, SIMI, has remained banned as an ‘unlawful’ organization under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, UAPA for allegedly pursuing anti-national activities. Significantly, the ban provision under UAPA mandates the...
Lift the casteist ban on APSC!
On 22 May 2015, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM), a student group namely Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSC) was ‘derecognised’ by the Dean of Students following an advisory note received from the Under Secretary to the Human Resource Development...
Condemn Conviction of Chhatradhar Mahato and Five Others by Midnapore District Court
PUDR strongly condemns the decision of the Midnapore District Court to award life-sentences to Chhatradhar Mahato, Sukhsanti Baske, Shambhu Soren,Sagun Murmu, Raja Sarkhel and Prasun Chatterjee. All six were arrested between September and October 2009 from Lalgarh and...