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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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
A Rape and a Retraction: The Saga of Dakshinpuri
A rape victim invariably faces compelling pressures that impose a shroud of silence over her violations. Such pressures come from within the family and, more pervasively, through the norms and codes of society. Where the agents of state are responsible for such...
A Wiped Out Life: The Story of a Police Cover-Up
This report, published in 1991, is about the death of an autorickshaw driver, Shankar Lal, on the 14th of July 1991. This report is based on interviews with the doctors, police officers, SDM and the family of the deceased. Shankar was picked up on the 4th of July by...
A Theft and Death Sentence: Murder in Patel Nagar Police Station
Published in August 1991, this report is based on an investigation into the death of 50-year-old Jayram in the custody of Patel Nagar Police Station. He was picked bu on 18th August from his house by four policemen who were looking for his 15-year-old son Manoj,...
Custodial Death in Timarpur P.S.: Delhi Police, With You, After You, Always
This report, published in August 1991, is on the custodial death of Om Prakash Kaushik in Timarpur police station. On July 12 the Timarpur police received a call about a fight in Wazirabad village. Upon arrival they found Om Prakash lying in a vacant plot. The police...
A Murder in Police Custody: Lahori Gate Police Station
This report, published in 1991, is about the custodial death of Jagan Nath, a 34-year-old peon cum chowkidar, who, along with another individual was picked up on May 1 and brought to the Lahori Gate Police Station. While the second individual was released the next...
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