Feb 19, 2007 | Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) demands a thorough probe into the large number of enforced disappearances in the hands of the security forces in Kashmir. What is shocking is the manner in which these enforced disappearances are passed off as encounter...
Dec 24, 2006 | Death Penalty
The Death Penalty is no Answer to Custodial Violance! In a ‘first of its kind’ decision a Delhi court has awarded the death sentence to a police officer – ACP Rishi Prasad Tyagi, for the custodial killings of Mahender Kumar and Ram Kumar in 1987 in Police Station...
Dec 20, 2006 | Death Penalty
PUDR has all along been concerned with high profile cases be it the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case or the Parliament attack case as they raise serious issues pertaining to criminal jurisprudence. The judgement on the Red Fort attack delivered by a Delhi session’s...
Nov 17, 2006 | Death Penalty
The conviction of Santosh Singh by Delhi High Court for the rape and murder of Priyadarshni Mattoo is very welcome. Inspite of wait of ten long years justice has finaly been done with the overturning of Session’s Court judgment acquitting Santosh Singh. However...
Oct 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
The Apunba Lup, the representative group of Manipur civil society, along with Delhi groups which included Human Rights Law Network, Saheli, People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Sama and Jagori today made public the report of the Justice Jeevan Reddy Committee,...
