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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Latest Press Statements
Condemn Delhi Police Brutality on Protesting Students
PUDR strongly condemns the repression unleashed by the Delhi police on students protesting against the University Grants Commission's move to scrap non NET fellowship for research scholars. The protesting students were lathicharged by the Delhi police first on October...
Writers’ Protest: A Call Against Intolerance and More
The threat of a two pronged attack on life and liberty of the citizens, as well as visiting foreigners, posed by a party in power never appeared as imminent as it does today. There is an exponential rise in the assault on our democratic rights launched by the Hindtuva...
Lynch and Burn: Hindutva’s slaughter methods
On 18th October 2015, Zahid Ahmed Bhat succumbed to his burn injuries in New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. Bhat, a resident of Batengoo, Anantnag district, was a nineteen year old cleaner of a truck that was set on fire on the night of 9th--10th October 2015 by a Hindu...
Continuing cases of SIMI acquittals expose the fraudulent nature of UAPA
On 30th September 2015, a local court in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, acquitted 14 persons who had been arrested on 14th June 2011 on charges of being members of SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) and for holding a banned meeting in a residential house in Khandwa...
बस्तर में वकीलों, पत्रकारों पर लगातार हमले का विरोध करो
बस्तर बार एसोसिएशन द्वारा पुलिस के साथ सांठगांठ से जिस तरीके से जगदलपुर लीगल ऐड ग्रुप (जगलग) को स्थानीय आदिवासियों की कानूनी मदद करने से रोका जा रहा है, उस पर पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डैमोक्रेटिक राइट्स गहरी चिंता व्यक्त करता है. तकनीकी अड़चन को आधार बनाकर 3 अक्टूबर को बार...
Latest Publications
Criminal Negligence: Death in Custody at Kanjhawala Police Station
This report published in 1993 is a fact-finding undertaken by PUDR on a custodial death in Kanjhawala police station - a police station with the second lowest crime rate in Delhi. Most of the crime in this police station is settled through negotiation, therefore, the...
An Accidental Suicide? Death in the Custody of Ashok Vihar Police
On 16 August 1993, a robbery took place at Ashok Vihar. Vinod was picked up by the police and taken to Basant Gaon. While returning back, police claim that Vinod snatched a police revolver and shot himself. He was taken to AIIMS, where he remained unconscious for 18...
Lawless Roads: A Report on TADA, 1985-1993
First introduced in May 1985, TADA was meant to be a temporary measure for two years. However, it has been regularly extended every two years. The latest was in May 1993. Its area of operation began with just one state and two Union Territories then extended to cover...
Bhopal Riots: A Report
To download the report, click below: Bhopal Riots: A Report
A Cover-up that Failed: Death and Protest at Najafgarh Police Station
On 3rd March 1993, many national dailies reported the death of 35-year-old Satyavan, a resident of village Jharoda Kalan, Najafgarh, in police custody. PUDR sent a fact-finding team that met family members, the villagers, the new SHO Najafgarh police station, the SDM...
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