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Police repression in Narayanpatna (Orissa)

"People are so scared of the security forces that even the injured are not brought to the hospital for fear of being arrested. They are scared to go out to the field and harvest their crops."

-- By Pramodini Pradhan Convenor, PUCL ( Bhubaneswar Unit ) | Click here



Shameful act

PUCL views repeated occurrence of these types of attacks, in Mumbai in particular and in other parts of the country in general, with great concern and believes that these incidents recur because master minds, instigators and perpetrators of these incidents enjoy impunity. To date, not a single key leader of these attacks has been punished thereby tacitly lending support to violence on street by those who are responsible for maintaining law and order
PUCL statement on the Shiv Sena attack against IBN Lokmat by Pushkar Raj, General Secretary, PUCL, 21 Nov., 2009

Address the root causes that breed insurgency

PUCL Press statement on the ongoing fight between state and Maoists
-- By Pushkar Raj General Secretary, PUCL, 12 October 2009

DEMOLITION OF AN ASHRAM RUN BY GANDHIAN ACTIVIST
A report on demolition of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh,

Cultural policing in Karnataka

Everyday acts of living in a multi-religious society are currently being rigorously policed and ordered by vigilante Hindu groups. The aim of cultural policing is to produce a form of social apartheid where the various communities become self-enclosed structures with inter-community social interaction being actively discouraged

-- A report by PUCL Karnataka, June 2009 (pdf) Click


Torture in police custody of student leader

PUCL, DK report on the custodial torture on Tejaswiraj, President  of National  Students Union of India, D.K. Click

 

Binayak Sen free on bail


-- By Kavita Srivastava, June 2, 2009

 

 


PUCL calls for UN military intervention and war crimes trials of Sri Lankan leaders

-- By K.G. Kannabiran, President, PUCL 8 May, 2009.

From Kandhamal to Karavali: The ugly face of Sangh Parivar

A report prepared jointly by a number of rights organisations including PUCL on the large scale violence against Christians in Orissa and Karnataka during August-September 2008. The violence was committed by Sangh Parivar organisations, mainly the Bajrang Dal. Their political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) happens to be in power in both the States, and that has ensured that the police watched benignly as the arson and murder took place in public. Click.

PUCL Condemns the arrest of Lenin Kumar; it throttles freedom of expression


Shahbaz Ahmed wrongly charged in connection with serial bomb blasts in Jaipur


- A PUCL/PUHR report, October 2008

" We think that Shahbaz Ahmed is innocent and has been picked up by police merely because he was a one time member of SIMI and his name probably cropped up in interrogation of one of the accused picked up earlier than him. Or may be police got hold of some membership list of SIMI from the years when he was a member. Shahbaz's life has changed after his marriage and it is unlikely that a person would be involved in bomb blasts in May when a child is born to his wife in April by a major operation. He seems to have been mostly busy trying to establish his business to ensure a decent earning to raise his family."

The sinister ways of Chhattisgarh police


The trial of PUCL vice-president and human rights activist, Dr. Binyak Sen.
Chhattisgarh police fabricate evidence and resort to intimidation.


"The entire court room was stunned by this act of the Chhattisgarh police who dared to tamper with sealed evidence in a case like that of Binayak Sen which was under everybody's glare. The court room that day had the presence of Dr. Abhay Shukla, a member of the NHRC core group who had been sent on a reconnaissance visit to examine whether Dr. Sen's trial needed monitoring. It left no room of doubt as to how the police must be regularly doctoring evidence in cases of the poor and fixing them."

-- By Kavita Srivastava,
Secretary, National PUCL & (General Secretary), PUCL Rajasthan

The Jaipur terror scapegoat:
The poor Bengali muslim migrant

Crackdown on the Bengalis started on the 19th May. Several hundreds had been rounded up and more than 115 people have been sent to Judicial Custody under sec 109 of the Cr. PC. This has led serious violation of the human rights of the Muslim migrants in the city especially those of Bengali origin.



A report by Kavita Srivastava, PUCL Rajesthan, 24 May 2008

Who is responsible for rebuilding lives of Innocent victims and families? New report from PUCL Rajesthan, 30 August 2008. Click


‘Encounter culture’ and accountability of police

Recent times have seen a rise in encounter killings in the country. According to National Human Rights Commission all over the country (barring Jammu and Kashmir) 83 people died in encounters with police in 2002- 03 while in 2003-04 there were 100 deaths. The number reached 122 by 2004-5. Uttar Pradesh maintained an upward trend with 41, 48 and 66 deaths respectively in three years followed by Andhra Pradesh that had 41 deaths during this period. Even a peaceful state like Uttrakhand reported 12 encounter deaths in these three years.

-- By Pushkar Raj and Shobha Sharma, December 2007






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