Press Statements
PUCL Delhi Condemns Assault on Students and Attack on Book Stall at the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Protest Site, Jantar Mantar
21 Jul, 2026The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) Delhi strongly condemns the actions of the Delhi Police against students associated with the All India Students’ Federation (AISF) at the ongoing Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest site at Jantar Mantar. The incident occurred on 20 July 2026 at around 1:30 PM at a protest site ope...
PUCL condemns the attempt to suppress the peaceful satyagraha by Sonam Wangchuk and Cockroach Janata Party
19 Jul, 2026PUCL is outraged by the action of the Delhi Police in forcibly taking a fasting Sonam Wangchuk away from the site of his hunger fast in Jantar Mantar on the 21st day of his hunger strike. This unconscionable action by the Delhi Police of forcibly disrupting a peaceful Gandhian protest which sought to awaken India’s conscience, i...
PUCL Statement Concerning the Attack on Human Rights Activist and Writer, Seema Azad, PUCL National Secretary
10 Jul, 2026A 6-page statement was issued on 26th June, 2026, allegedly by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) – North Coordination Committee (NCC), claiming that Seema Azad was a State Secretary of the party and because of her “revisionist” practices, associating with a CIA agent in India, and due to her ‘prioritizing bourgeois...
PUCL deplores the deployment of Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against fair and legitimate criticism of the functioning of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma
29 Jun, 2026Contempt Proceedings against Kejriwal, AAP Leaders, and Journalist Saurav Das must be dropped! The provision of “scandalising the court” must be repealed from the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, as it relies on the colonial logic of stifling fair criticism of the judiciary! PUCL deplores the criminal contempt proceeding...
Democratization of Land & Resource Governance to protect communities engaged in subsistence customary livelihoods from rampant land grab
14 Jun, 2026The last frontiers of natural wealth of Tamil Nadu – which include its hills, forests and scrub lands, coastal waters and lands, sand dunes, salt pans and brackish water ecologies, agricultural fields, tanks, ponds, canals and other wetlands, grazing and other commons – are under severe threat from large-scale land mon...
Falsifying the Truth: PUCL Condemns the Systematic Manipulation of Census Data and the Suppression of Ground Realities in the Ongoing Census Exercise
15 Jun, 2026The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), views with the gravest alarm the revelations published in The Hindu on 3 June 2026 regarding the conduct of the ongoing Census House listing Operations (HLO) across Rajasthan and other states. The reports disclose a disturbing and unconscionable pattern: that ground-level enumer...
PUCL condemns the judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court holding that the Kamal Maula Mosque was built on a Sarasvati temple and hence possession vests exclusively with the Hindutva petitioners
08 Jun, 2026The PUCL faults the Madhya Pradesh High Court for being impervious to the spirit of fraternity and secularism which is the soul of the Constitution. PUCL demands that the Religious Places of Worship Act, 1991 be strictly followed and interpreted as a legislation enacted to uphold secularism The May, 2026 judgment of the Divisio...
PUCL Bihar welcomes Bihar SHRC order directing police to submit a report on recent incident of brutal murder
14 May, 2026A tragic incident in Patna has raised serious concerns about child safety and human rights. Roshni Kumari, a 10-year-old girl, went missing after leaving her home to deliver milk to a neighbour. When she did not return, her family searched for her and later informed the police. The next day, her body was found wrapped in a blanket...
PUCL condemns SC's SIR Verdict: Legitimising mass Disenfranchisement
04 Jun, 2026The PUCL condemns the 27th May, 2026 decision of the Supreme Court in ‘Association of Democratic Rights v. Election Commission of India’ as a singular blow to the principle of political equality in India. In one of its most consequential decisions, the Court legitimized the mass disenfranchisement exercise conducted by th...
PUCL Condemns the Arrest of Garga Chatterjee: Criminalising Political Speech Threatens Constitutional Democracy
14 May, 2026The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns the arrest of activist and public intellectual Garga Chatterjee by the Cyber Crime Cell of the Kolkata Police on 12 May 2026 on the basis of allegations relating to social media posts concerning EVM functioning during the recent Assembly election period. On 13 May 2...