Dec 15, 2011 | Adivasis, Death Penalty, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR welcomes the Jharkhand High Court decision acquitting Jiten Marandi and three other adivasi poor peasants, earlier convicted and given the death sentence by District and Sessions Court, Giridih in Chilkari Firing of October 26, 2007 in the Girdih District, in...
Aug 26, 2011 | Death Penalty
The People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) is deeply distressed by the President’s rejection of the appeal for mercy for the three accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The three accused, Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan had been awarded the...
Aug 12, 2011 | Death Penalty
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is deeply concerned at the Supreme Court upholding the death penalty for Mohammad Arif@ Ashfaq in the Red Fort Attack case as well as the Union Home Ministry advisory to the President in the Parliament Attack case, to reject...
Jun 3, 2011 | Death Penalty
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights urges the Union Government to commute the death sentence awarded to Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar as well as Mahendra Nath Das. While individual circumstances of the case would bring out mitigating factors there is an issue of...
Dec 24, 2006 | Death Penalty
The Death Penalty is no Answer to Custodial Violance! In a ‘first of its kind’ decision a Delhi court has awarded the death sentence to a police officer – ACP Rishi Prasad Tyagi, for the custodial killings of Mahender Kumar and Ram Kumar in 1987 in Police Station...
Dec 22, 2006 | Death Penalty
ON FRIDAY, 22 DECEMBER 2000, at about 9 p.m., a firing incident took place inside the Red Fort at Delhi which housed, since 1857 and until recently, an Army garrison. Three Army personnel of the 7th Battalion of the Rajputana Rifles, died in the attack. While those...
