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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पीयूडीआर मांग करता है कि मुज़फ्फरनगर दंगों के गवाहों को न्यायालयों द्वारा तुरंत सुरक्षा दी जाए, और न्यायपूर्ण फैसले दिए जाएँ !
2013 में मुज़फ्फरनगर में हुऐ दंगों से सम्बंधित हत्याओं, बलात्कार, लूट और आगज़नी के मामलों में आरोपियों के बरी होने की खबरें लगातार सामने आ रही हैं | पीयूडीआर चिंता व्यक्त करता है कि 2013 में मुज़फ्फरनगर के दंगों के बाद डर और खुली छूट का जो माहौल बना था, वह आज भी बरकरार...
How democracy ‘uses’ a colonial law
PUDR has continually critiqued the existence of the colonial law of sedition and its unconstitutional application at the behest of those who hold state power, in cases that do not stand the test of law. The arrest of SAR Geelani, Professor at the University of Delhi,...
Condemning the vigilante action at the Patiala House Courts, New Delhi
PUDR strongly condemns the shocking acts of physical violence and abuse perpetrated by 40 advocates and BJP MLA OP Sharma against students and faculty of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and media persons today, at the Patiala House court, in full presence of the...
Condemn Fascism in the Name of Nationalism
PUDR strongly condemns the Delhi Police for arresting the JNU students’ union president, Kanhaiya Kumar today, 12th February, on charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy for holding a protest demonstration on February 9th against the judicial hanging of Afzal Guru,...
PUDR salutes Professor Randhir Singh
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights mourns the death of Professor Randhir Singh, who passed away on Sunday 31st January, 2016. He was teacher par excellence to many, guide and philosopher to many more. For us he spanned the pre and post 1947 India which was marked not...
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Special Staff on Duty: Death in the Custody of North East District Police
This is a report on custodial death in the North-East police district of Delhi in the year 1995. A businessman, Dilip Chakravarty was picked up from his home by policemen in civil clothes who were acting purportedly on the basis of some information regarding...
In Memory of Mr. Gobinda Mukhoty
Gobinda Mukhoty completed graduation from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1948. In 1957 he went to the UK to study law. After completing his bar-at-law in 1964 he returned to India and started teaching at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. He started practice as a lawyer...
In Memory of Dr. Ramanadham
A. Ramanadham, a medical doctor by profession, founded one of the district units of APCLC in Warangal town. Started his career as a government doctor. Dissatisfied with the unethical medical practices, he left his job and set up his own Children’s Clinic in 1968 in...
Of Police and Prison: A Death via Two Custodies
This report published in July 1995 investigates the torture and custodial death of 23-year-old Ajay at the hands of the police. Ajay, a motor mechanic by trade was picked up by the police on 5th June for questioning related to a break-in and stabbing at Madras...
Oppose TADA: Protest Against All Black Laws
This leaflet was published during the All India Convention Against TADA on 13 May 1995, hosted by PUDR and organised jointly organised by AIFOFDR, APCLC, ACRA (Assansole), AFDR (Punjab), APDR (WB), CCLDR (Goa), CPDR (Bombay), LHS (Bombay), MASS (Assam), OPDR (AP and...
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