Press Statements
PUCL demands the immediate removal of the Chief Election Commissioner and the restoration of all deleted names in the SIR!
25 Sep, 2026An investigation published on 23rd September by The Indian Express has confirmed what opposition parties and civil society groups have alleged for over a year: the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, the largest and most consequential overhaul of India’s voter lists in independent history, is not a technical exercise...
PUCL Condemns Attempt to Tar TM Krishna as a Naxalite
22 Sep, 2026The PUCL takes strong objection to the remark by the Solicitor General, Tushar Mehta made today in the SC during the hearing of the SLP filed by T.M. Krishna challenging the amendment to the Prevention of Insults to the National Honour Act giving ‘National Song’ the same protection as the ‘National Anthem’,...
Statement on the Mob Attack on a Peaceful Reading Assembly at AUDA Garden, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad
28 Aug, 2026The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Gujarat strongly condemns the Bajrang Dal-VHP assault on a silent book-reading event in Ahmedabad on August 27. On the evening of 27 August 2026, an armed mob of 45 to 50 men attacked a peaceful, silent reading assembly of approximately 50 students, citizens, and youth at AUDA Garde...
PUCL Condemns Death Sentence to 10 Convicts in Jhiram Valley Case; Calls it Unjust, Disproportionate and a Setback to Peace in Bastar
16 Sep, 2026(Click here to read the statement in Hindi.) PUCL Chhattisgarh expresses deep concern and anguish over the death sentence awarded today by the Special NIA Court, Jagdalpur, to 10 convicts in the 2013 Jhiram Valley attack case. While PUCL has consistently taken a principled position against political violence in all its forms and u...
PUCL Rajasthan urges the Chief Justice of India to intervene to safeguard judicial integrity, and demands the immediate appointment of a regular Chief Justice to the Rajasthan High Court
02 Sep, 2026The People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Rajasthan, views with the gravest concern the allegations levelled against Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, Acting Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court, by Justice Sandeep Mehta of the Supreme Court of India. In three letters dated 2, 10 and 17 August 2026 addressed to the Chief Ju...
Immediately Arrest Those Accused of Attacking CJP Activists in Rampura urf Kanwarpura
21 Aug, 2026Strict Action and suspension against Shivdaspura SHO and ACP for Dereliction of Duty Immediately Repair the Dilapidated Primary School at Rampura urf Kanwarpura and Ensure Its Regular Functioning Withdraw the Order Restricting Entry, Photography and Videography in Schools The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Rajasthan,...
Dangawas Six-Murder Case Verdict: All Accused Acquitted; Justice or Injustice?
07 Aug, 2026Jaipur, 7 August 2026: The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Rajasthan, expresses deep concern and disappointment over the judgment delivered on 5 August 2026 by the Special Court, Merta, in connection with the horrific caste violence and mass killings that took place in Dangawas, Nagaur district, in 2015. This is the c...
Token Public Hearings on the Aravallis Condemned - Mining Lobby Hijacks Ajmer Public Hearing
09 Aug, 2026Token Public Hearings on the Aravallis Condemned Mining Lobby Hijacks Ajmer Public Hearing 9 August 2026 Raising serious questions over the functioning of the High Powered Committee constituted by the Supreme on the Aravallis, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Rajasthan, along with several people’s organisations, ...
PUCL Maharashtra condemns the Wrongful Prosecution of TISS Students and Arrest of Abhirup Paul in Mumbai in connection with a Student Gathering on Campus
14 Aug, 2026People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Maharashtra is deeply concerned and distressed at the recent developments related to the prosecution of nine Students of the Tata Institute of Social Studies (TISS), the denial of anticipatory bail to two students and arrest of Abhirup Paul, in connection with a student gathering held a...
Womens’ groups and Feminists Hail Our Wrestlers and Their Lawyers Fighting for Justice
03 Aug, 2026We, the undersigned members of womens’ organisations and independent feminists in India are shocked at the acquittal of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, former MP (BJP) and the erstwhile President of the Wrestlers Federation of India by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashwini Panwar of the Rouse Avenue Court in New Delhi. Whi...