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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Death via Custody: Guru Tegh Bahadur Police Post
On 3rd December 1991, some newspapers reported a death due to beating and torture in the custody of Delhi police, Guru Tegh Bahadur Police Post. The victim, Raghunath, who was a migrant worker from Bihar, was a suspect in a theft case. An enquiry by the Vigilance...
A Death in Our Times: Kamla Market Police Station
A man is beaten to death in a police station. Two policemen cart his body to be produced before a magistrate. They seat the corpse outside the crowded courtroom, in a true Amitabh Bachan filmy style, and argue with the magistrate that it should be given a 14-day...
A Dead End: Custodial Death at Preet Vihar
The report questions the police version of the death of 27-year-old rickshaw puller Bijeshwar Paswan whom the police claimed to have found in an unconscious state near Radhu Palace Chowk, Preet Vihar. The report traces the disturbing collusion between police, medical...
Shankar Guha Niyogi and the Chattisgarh Peoples Movement
On 3 June 1977, barely three months after the emergency was lifted, the struggle of Dalli-Rajhara miners and the name of Shankar Guha Niyogi became known to the world outside Chattisgarh. The previous night Niyogi had been arrested provoking thousands of workers to...
Dalla: Privatisation, Police Firing and Workers Struggle
On 2 June 1991, the workers of a cement factory at Dalla, (District Sonbhadra) in Uttar Pradesh were fired upon when they were staging rasta rook and dharna in protest against the privatization of their factory, owned by UP state Cement Corporation. Eight bodies were...
Latest Press Statements
Condemn Police Lathicharge on Contract Workers’ Demonstration outside Delhi Secretariat
PUDR strongly condemns the brutal lathicharge by Delhi Police on a workers’ demonstration on 25 March 2015 when nearly 1000 workers and activists belonging to different unions (Wazirpur hot rolling steel industry, Delhi Metro Railways Corporation, Karawal Nagar almond...
युद्ध-क्षेत्र में आदिवासी जिंदगियाँ : बीजापुर के गावों में सुरक्षा कैंप के बीच असुरक्षित जीवन
26 से 31 दिसंबर 2014 के बीच पी.यू.डी.आर. का एक जांच दल छत्तीसगढ़ के बीजापुर ज़िले के 9 गावों में गया | जांच दल ने इन क्षेत्रों में माओवादियों से लड़ने के लिए तैनात सुरक्षा बलों के द्वारा की जा रही गिरफ्तारियों, धमकियों, एवं उत्पीड़न के साथ-साथ यौन-उत्पीड़न की घटनाओं को...
PUDR Condemns Ban on Cow Slaughter
On March 16th 2015, the Haryana Government unanimously passed Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Bill with main opposition parties INLD and Congress supporting the Bill. The new bill passed by the Haryana Government bans cow slaughter and sale of beef and...
Hashimpura Judgment: An example of deliberate delay, violation of fair trial and denial of compensation.
On 22 May 1987, PAC personnel of UP reached Hashimpura, Meerut, took away about 50 Muslim men from a crowd outside a mosque, shot dead at least 42 of the men, and threw their bodies into a canal. On 21 March 2015, a Delhi Sessions Court accepted that the PAC personnel...
Condemn gang-rape in Nadia and continuing attacks on Christians
PUDR expresses outrage at the gang-rape of a 71 year old nun by a gang of “dacoits” inside a convent in Gangnapur village, Nadia district, West Bengal on 14th March 2015. The men reportedly raided and desecrated the convent before taking away 12 lakhs.Clearly, the...