Caste

Press Statements

8 Jan 2008

INTER-CASTE MARRIAGE AND POLICE HARASSMENT IN FARIDABAD

Two persons are missing for the last 8 days after being taken into police custody. Police claims no knowledge.The court has incarcerated Razia at the Nari Niketan, despite her statement to the court that she is an adult and has married of her free-will.

The details of the case are as follows:

Ram Gopal (29 years), and Razia (22 years) got married on 28.05 2006. A year and a half later, Razia left her home in Faridabad (Haryana) on 27 November 2007.

Report

11 Jun 2007

Civil Rights Investigation into Police Firings on Gurjar Agitation in May-June 2007

A 24 member team belonging to the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Rajasthan, the People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), Delhi, Association for Democratic Rights (AFDR), Punjab, and students of various National Law University colleges conducted a week-long study of the State and caste violence that gripped Rajasthan.

28 Aug 2003

Courting Disaster: A Report on Inter-Caste Marriages Society and State

The present report attempts to centrally place the issue of 'love marriages' within the ambit of the democratic rights movement.

26 Feb 2003

Dalit Lynching at Dulina: Cow - Protection, Caste and Communalism

In October, 2002, 5 men were brutally killed in the presence of, and possibly by, a large and violent mob on the main road outside the Dulina Police Post, near Jhajjar town (district Jhajjar) Haryana in front of the police and several senior district officials.

16 Aug 1992

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 yearn in about 24 such incidents of agrarian violence against the poorest and most oppressed sections of rural Bihar.