Press Statements
Joint Press Statement on the implementation of Forest Rights Act in the Konkan Division
24 Feb, 2026Joint Statement by Shoshit Jan Andolan, Yashwantrao Chavan Centre and PUCL Maharashtra A Public Hearing to audit two decades of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) implementation in the Konkan Division* was held at the Y.B. Chavan Centre on 24th February 2026 by Shoshit Jan Andolan (a grassroot level federation of mass organisations worki...
PUCL Rajasthan: The Disturbed Area Law will fracture Rajasthani society, cause ghettoisation of Minorities in urban areas!
05 Mar, 2026The PUCL demands the Immediate Withdrawal of this Anti-Constitutional Bill! Critique of the Rajasthan Prohibition of Transfer of Immovable Property and Provision for Protection of Tenants from Eviction from Premises in Disturbed Areas Bill, 2026 The PUCL demands the withdrawal by the Government of Rajasthan of the draft bill popul...
PUCL condemns the attack by ABVP on students of Azim Premji University
27 Feb, 2026Universities must protect the spirit of critical inquiry, not surrender to the blackmail of mob violence! Government of Karnataka must unilaterally withdraw the prosecution which targets the students! PUCL Karnataka strongly condemns the attack on students of Azim Premji University and the members of Spark Reading Circle by member...
Civil society groups raise alarm over Maharashtra’s proposed “Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam, 2026”
11 Mar, 2026A coalition of close to 30 civil society organisations, women’s rights groups and constitutional rights advocates will hold a joint press conference on March 11, 2026 in Mumbai to express deep concern over the Maharashtra Cabinet’s decision to approve the draft “Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam, 2026”, a proposed anti-conversio...
PUCL statement condemning the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 as unconstitutional and demanding its immediate withdrawal
19 Mar, 2026The amendments proposed in the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 constitute a gross dilution of valuable rights provided under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 and shall result in exclusion of a large number of Transgender Persons from its ambit, denial of their constitutional...
Himanta Biswa Sarma must resign as Chief Minister of Assam for serial violations of his oath of office to govern without ‘fear or favour, affection or ill-will’
11 Feb, 2026PUCL strongly condemns the recent statements made by the Chief Minister of Assam promoting divisive rhetoric against minorities which brazenly undermines the rule of law and violates his constitutional oath of office to protect all citizens without fear or favour. It is deeply alarming that a constitutionally elected Chief Ministe...
Coalition of like-minded Progressive Organisations: Justice for the Victims of Dis-honour Killing in Hubbali
25 Dec, 2025“Fraternity means a sense of common brotherhood of all Indians-of Indians being one people. It is the principle which gives unity and solidarity to social life. It is a difficult thing to achieve…The castes are anti-national. In the first place because they bring about separation in social life. They are anti-national also bec...
PUCL welcomes the decision of the Surajpur Court to reject the UP government’s plea to drop all charges against the accused in the Mohammed Akhlaq lynching case
27 Dec, 2025On 23rd December, 2025, a fast-tracked court in Surajpur, Uttar Pradesh rejected the state government’s plea to drop all charges against the accused in the Mohammed Akhlaq lynching case on the basis that ‘the offence of murder is a grave offence committed against society.’ Nearly 10 years have passed since 52-year-old...
PUCL Uttar Pradesh: Calling those unable to be a part of the SIR list “infiltrators” and sending them to detention centers is a violation of civil rights
10 Dec, 2025On December 7, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath issued a letter to the public through all newspapers, in which he referred to the special intensive voter revision process and spoke about identifying Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators in the state and placing them in detention centers. He made this statement while quoting...
The Education Minister of Rajasthan must clarify the order on “Shaurya Diwas” himself
30 Nov, 2025After PUCL Rajasthan published the above press notes on the basis of news published in the major newspapers, there was a press note from the Director of Secondary Education that he had not issued such a press note. Following this, PUCL Rajasthan immediately released this. Contradictory statements by the Minister’s PA and the Dir...