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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The police must be held answerable for the Sangam Park riot of 31st January
PUDR strongly condemns the police’s role in the outbreak of riots between members of the Valmiki and Muslim communities, in the Sangam Park area in North West Delhi, on 31st January, 2016. PUDR’s investigation into the incidents of 30th and 31st January, and...
Admission opens a can of worms
On 23rd July 2009, the Manipur police claimed to have had an encounter with a ‘PLA cadre’ Sanjit, as a result of which Sanjit died. While this version was widely contested by the local people who claimed that Sanjit was murdered in a cold-blooded manner, a set of...
CDRO Condemns the new wave of State terror being unleashed on the people of Chhattisgarh
Reports from Nendra and Pedda Jojer in Bijapur, and Kunna in Sukma reveal a new and brutal wave of systematic violence being carried out by security forces in South Chhattisgarh. On the one hand Chhattisgarh police proudly announces the launch of new operations and...
Condemn casteist actions of Hyderabad University authorities
PUDR strongly condemns the authorities of the Central University of Hyderabad for their caste based victimisation of Dalit students, which, on 17th January, 2016, resulted in Rohith Vemula , a Dalit Research Scholar in Science Technology and Society Studies in the...
Supreme Court’s ruling on Haryana Panchayati Raj case: a case of “contempt of people”
PUDR expresses deep concern over the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Act, 2015. On Human Rights Day, 10th December 2015, the apex court upheld five disqualifications laid down in the Act to particularly exclude those who are...
Latest Publications
Netarhat: In the Line of Fire
In the Palamu and Gumla districts of Jharkhand (erstwhile Bihar), tens of thousands of people successfully prevented the army from conducting field firing and artillery practice on their land in 1994. Later on, the plan for making the entire area into a firing range...
First Notch in their Gun: Custodial Death, Seelampur P.S.
At around 4.00 in the afternoon of August 27, Masoom Ali, a 60-year-old ex-Army person, goes to a tea stall in his locality, Chauhan Bangar. He has heard that his son, Nusrat, is in a brawl with Mohd. Farman, son of Chand, the tea stall owner. Not only does he...
A Very Easy Death: IGI Airport Police Station
In the limited world of a resettlement colony, Kuldeep's desire to make it big is a run-of-the-mill story. A familiar story of an ordinary youth caught in a social environment from which he desires to break free. Kuldeep procures a passport for which he pays a...
नरवाना शहर: पुलिस हिरासत में एक मौत
8 नवम्बर 1993 को एक युवक की नरवाना में पुलिस हिरासत में एक मौत होती है. पी. यु. डी. आर. ने पांच सदसिय टीम भेजकर इस घटना की तहकीकात की जिस दौरान टीम युवक के परिवार, SHO, SDM, सरकारी अस्तपताल के SMO तथा अन्य डाक्टरों के साथ मुलाकात की. इसके अलावा टीम दो गवाहों तथा उन...
Remembering C.V. Subba Rao
C. Venkat Subba Rao was born in Rajahmundry in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on 17 December 1953. It was his passion for literature that drove him towards revolutionary politics. At the age of 13, he wrote his first poem dedicated to Gurujaddo Apparao,...
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