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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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...
Satpura Ki Ghati: People’s Struggle in Hoshangabad
Southeastern Hoshangabad is known for the Pachmarhi hill station, "nestled" in the tourism promotion language, among the Mahadeo hills. The rail route lies from Delhi to Itarsi then branches to Pipariya town, from where starts the ascent to the hills. From Piparia...
Latest Press Statements
Stop false arrest of Adivasis and threats to rights’ activists and lawyers in Chattisgarh
PUDR strongly condemns IG Bastar, SRP Kalluri’s threat of taking severe action against certain NGOs in Chhattisgarh for allegedly aiding and abetting the Maoists under the guise of helping Adivasis. At a recent Press Conference he said that many such organisations...
Yakub Menon – A Question of Life and Death
PUDR notes with extreme concern the Supreme Court's decision on the 9th of April 2015, to reject Yakub Memon’s petition seeking review of his death sentence. This decision will only add another chapter to the growing instances of injustice perpetrated by the State. In...
Condemn Targetting of Democratic Rights Activists’ Team inquiring into Seshachalam Killings
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) strongly condemns the slapping of cases against activists of a team of several civil liberties and democratic rights organisations from across the country who conducted a fact-finding into the recent killings of 20 red...
Condemn cold-blooded murder of five under-trial prisoners by Telengana Police
PUDR notes with deep concern the news report regarding the encounter killing of 5 under-trial prisoners near Alair in Nalgonda district, Telengana on 7th April 2015. The incident occurred on a busy highway in the middle of the morning when the prisoners were being...
Condemn attacks on Political Prisoners in Nagpur and Madurai Central jails
PUDR strongly condemns the recent attacks by police and jail officials on undertrial political prisoners, Hem Mishra and Vivekananda, in Nagpur and Madurai Central prisons, respectively. On 20 March 2015, when Hem Mishra was being taken to the Government Medical...