Jul 9, 2026 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement
On 24 August 2024, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the deadline of 31 March 2026 for the complete eradication of Naxalism from the country. This report presents an account of 27 months of Operation Kagaar – security operations conducted jointly by the central...
Feb 10, 2025 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict, Encounters
With more than one year of security operations in Chhattisgarh under Operation Kagaar, PUDR condemns the central and state governments’ policy of securitization at the expense of people’s rights and in violation of domestic and international law governing the State’s...
Jul 8, 2022 | Encounters, Undemocratic Laws
People’s Union for Democratic Rights demands that the Centre give sanction for prosecuting guilty army personnel involved in the killings in Oting, Nagaland on December 4, 2021. Spread over 300 pages, the SIT has accused the army on multiple grounds, and the...
Apr 1, 2022 | Armed Conflict, Custodial Death, Encounters, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights, PUDR, welcomes the Union Government’s decision (March 31, 2022), to significantly reduce the ambit of disturbed areas under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). According to news reports, this decision will be effective in...
Sep 24, 2018 | Encounters
PUDR strongly condemns the abduction and slaying of one constable and two Special Police Officers (SPOs) by unidentified militants in the Shopian district of Kashmir.The deceased identified as Nisar Ahmad Dhobi (aged 38), Firdous Ahmad Kuchey (aged 28) and Kulwant...
Jun 19, 2018 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Between the 5th and 7th of May 2018, a combined fact-finding team of 40 members from the Coordination for Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO), Indian Association of Peoples’ Lawyers (IAPL) and Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) visited the...
